ThinkingSphinx returning empty result in console

Question

I am having the same problem that is brought up here:

thinking sphinx and console

(Tried to ask a question on that thread but can't...)

Basically, any search done in the console returns an empty result. However, if I do the search through the site it works fine.

But are in development mode on my local machine. (OS X)

Example:

> Article.search 'eating'
[]

That same search in a browser returns the expecting results.

I have rebuild the indexes numerous times. Killed off ThinkingSphinx and rebuild it, etc. Nothing seems to make any change in the console.

This is with Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.2-p180

Any insight would be great.

Thanks.