http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/deployment.html mentions the config searchd_file_path: /path/to/app/shared/db/sphinx which would put the sphinx db in the shared path, but then the Capistrano task symlinks run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/db/sphinx #{release_path}/db/sphinx" to the release_path, so it's not clear if that's required or a bug in the config example.
I found several inconsistencies in the TS documentation:
require 'vendor/plugins/thinking-sphinx/recipes/thinking_sphinx'
require 'thinking_sphinx/tasks'
in the Rakefile, but this prevents "rake gems:install" from working - you need to wrap it inrescue LoadError
or somesuchsearchd_file_path: /path/to/app/shared/db/sphinx
which would put the sphinx db in the shared path, but then the Capistrano task symlinksrun "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/db/sphinx #{release_path}/db/sphinx"
to the release_path, so it's not clear if that's required or a bug in the config example.