redmine_didyoumean

= Did You Mean Plugin

A Redmine plugin to search for possible duplicates when users are about to open new issues.
You can find more information on the project wiki: https://github.com/abahgat/redmine_didyoumean/wiki

== Install

1. Follow the Redmine plugin installation steps at: http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Plugins
2. Make sure the plugin installation directory name is redmine_didyoumean
3. Restart the server (this will ensure that the CSS file and other assets are copied to the right place)
4. (optional) Configure the plugin by navigating to Administration > Plugins and select the Configure label on the line for Did You Mean?

== Searching engines
By default plugin use SQL Engine, but there is available SphinxSearch Engine.

[1. Before you switch to Thinking Sphinx you should make sure that SphinxSearch engine was installed]
for Debian/Ubuntu users

• sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch
• Plugin use Thinking Sphinx v3.1.1 and Sphinx should be v2.2.4 or newer.
• Thinking Sphinx will be installed with bundle commend (was definded in Gemfile)

for RedHat/CentOS users

• curl -L -o sphinx-2.2.6-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.2.6-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm
• sudo yum install ./sphinx-2.2.6-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm
• sudo chkconfig searchd on
• Plugin use Thinking Sphinx v3.1.1 and Sphinx should be v2.2.4 or newer.
• Thinking Sphinx will be installed with bundle commend (was definded in Gemfile)

[2. If everything was successfully installed then in your console run(in main Redmine catalog):]

• bundle exec rake ts:index (index your data)
• bundle exec rake ts:start
• Choose search method : Administration -> Plugins -> Redmine Did You Mean? -> select Thinking Sphinx Engine.
• Now possibly duplicated subject's will be searching by Sphinx.
  [3. If you want stop searching by SphinxSearch Engine in your console run:]
• bundle exec rake ts:stop
• Switch method in plugin configuration.

=== Difference between search engines
The main advantage of SphinxSearch is the fact that if you set many words to searching, this gives you results faster then SQL Engine.

* SQL Engine:
Takes words 1:1 if you match 'GUI Changes' this will be looking for "GUI" "Changes".

* Thinking Sphinx Engine:
Firstly search for words 1:1 after this substract last character ex. like: "Running"

• Firstly "Running"
• "Runner"
• etc.

== License

This plugin is licensed under the GNU GPL v2. See COPYRIGHT.txt and GPL.txt for details.

== Project help

If you need help you can contact the maintainers on the project page on GitHub (https://github.com/abahgat/redmine_didyoumean). If you want to report bugs, please open a new issue here: https://github.com/abahgat/redmine_didyoumean/issues

Please search for duplicates first :P