What does realtime mean in sphinxsearch (thinking-sphinx)?

Question

Sphinx

Started working at thinking-sphinx on a rail project.
The documentation contains the following code parts:
ThinkingSphinx::Index.define :article, :with => :real_time do
and
ThinkingSphinx::Index.define :article, :with => :active_record do
What does this mean and which one should I put?

Answer 1

realtime means you put the data in the sphinx yourself, and do not index any tables or pipes
read the sphinx documentation

Answer 2

well, active_record, presumably, is an ORM wrapper, but realtime xs what the author had in mind, if not rt-indexes (unlikely), maybe just put raw sql , you
'll figure it out there))