`Cannot find Elasticsearch launch script from [elasticsearch]` Error

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Error: No such file or directory - Cannot find Elasticsearch launch script from [elasticsearch] -- did you pass a correct path? When using ElasticSearch gems.

Ubuntu elasticsearch package changed, so no longer does which elasticsearch return anything, which means the gem can not find the binary.

Solution: suppy command option to ES to tell it where the binary is, either use the existing binary, mine was at /usr/shared/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch, or symlink the same binary to somewhere in $PATH or install a new version to $PATH.

To install a new version download and untar to somewhere in $PATH, e.g. ~/bin You can find downloads such as this one: https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.7.3.tar.gz

cluster = Elasticsearch::Extensions::Test::Cluster.start(command: '/home/kris/bin/elasticsearch-1.7.3/bin/elasticsearch')

What if you are using docker?

@LucasPiffer did you manage to find a solution for this with docker?

Anyone find a solution for this on docker?

If you are using docker container to run ES, why you need to spin up the cluster? Just check if ES is accessible on test port(localhost:9250 in my case) if yes then you can do all ES operations e.g. create/refresh/delete index from .rb. Just make sure you expose ports while spinning up docker container.