I'm running a Django site on Heroku, and would like to use Flying Sphinx. Is there documentation on how to configure django-sphinx for that scenario?
At this point there isn't. I'd love to be able to support Django, but the catch is dealing with Heroku's shared PostgreSQL databases.
For Ruby sites, there is the flying-sphinx gem, and that actually sets up a reverse SSH port forward to allow the Flying Sphinx servers to access the database temporarily when Sphinx is indexing. That's the hard part of what would need to be implemented on the Django/Python side of things - the rest is a few API calls to send the Sphinx configuration through, request indexing to happen and start/stop the daemon, plus reading in the Sphinx connection details via the environment variables.
I'm not at all experienced with Django or Python, mind you, which is why such support is not something I can whip up quickly. Do you know of any options to manage SSH connections with reverse port forwards in Python?