Does Heroku support Thinking Sphinx?

Question

I would like to know if Heroku supports Sphinx (and its gem Thinking Sphinx)

Answer 1

Looks like Heroku soon will support Sphinx through Flying-Sphinx

Answer 2

You would need to launch an ec2 instance, and put all the text to search in SimpleDB, or S3, etc then run Sphinx on the EC2. Response would be fast as your heroku app is also on EC2. So the EC2 instance could only handle text searching, with the pretty web site on Heroku.

Answer 3

nope it doesn't

you can't actually use most text-based searches in heroku because you won't be able to have a writable directory