Django Haystack simple search engine issue

Question

I am currently trying out Haystack for our django based forum site. I was trying to use the simple search engine option but i get an error telling me it is not available. the haystack documentation says it is still an option and I cannot find anything about why it would not be an option anymore. Anyone have an knowledge on this? I am running the latest version of Haystack that i downloaded this morning. Here is the error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'simple' isn't an available search backend. Available options are: 'dummy', 'solr', 'whoosh'

Answer 1

It`s because simple backend not available in 1.0 release of haystack. See the docs haystack 1.0 docs. And i guess you are reading dev docs,which corresponds to the development version on haystack. You can get a dev version from github.