Make Sphinx quiet (non-verbose)

Question

I'm using Sphinx through Thinking Sphinx in a Ruby on Rails project. When I create seed data and all the time, it's quite verbose, printing this:

using config file '/Users/pupeno/projectx/config/development.sphinx.conf'...
indexing index 'user_delta'...
collected 7 docs, 0.0 MB
collected 0 attr values
sorted 0.0 Mvalues, 100.0% done
sorted 0.0 Mhits, 99.6% done
total 7 docs, 159 bytes
total 0.042 sec, 3749.29 bytes/sec, 165.06 docs/sec
Sphinx 0.9.8.1-release (r1533)
Copyright (c) 2001-2008, Andrew Aksyonoff

for every record that is created or so. Is there a way to suppress that output?

Answer 1

There is actually a setting to stop this - you'll want to set it at the end of your environment.rb file:

ThinkingSphinx.suppress_delta_output = true

In Thinking Sphinx v3 and newer, this has changed, and this setting is now managed through config/thinking_sphinx.yml. Repeat for each appropriate environment:

development:
  quiet_deltas: true