Update: This sort of thing doesn’t really fit into my current blog – but it still gets a lot of hits, so someone must find it useful. Thinking Sphinx is a beautiful interface to the Sphinx search engine.  One thing that I only saw mentioned in passing was setting up a config/sphinx.yml file.  This is necessary if you want to run multiple sphinxes on varying ports (say, if you were running multiple apps on the one host).  The format is: development: port: 13000 test: port: 13001 staging: port: 13002 production: port: 13003