Configuring Tire to work with Bonsai

configuring tire for bonsai.md

Configuring Tire to use the Bonsai ElasticSearch Heroku add-on

gem 'tire', '~> 0.4.1'

Bonsai provisions one ElasticSearch index per application. Tire, however, assumes that each model is using its own index.

Currently the best way to work around this is to set the Tire.configuration.url and the model's index_name manually.

config/initializers/bonsai.rb

if ENV['BONSAI_INDEX_URL']
  Tire.configure do
    url "http://index.bonsai.io"
  end
  BONSAI_INDEX_NAME = ENV['BONSAI_INDEX_URL'][/[^\/]+$/]
else
  app_name = Rails.application.class.parent_name.underscore.dasherize
  app_env = Rails.env
  BONSAI_INDEX_NAME = "#{app_name}-#{app_env}"
end

app/models/article.rb

class Article
  include Tire::Model::Search
  include Tire::Model::Callbacks
  index_name BONSAI_INDEX_NAME
end

Known issues

• Fixed in Tire 0.4.1 Bulk import uses cluster-level /_bulk handler rather than the index-level _bulk handler, causing bulk imports to fail. Issue 327
• Multi-model search is not scoped within the index. Issue 322

@mhenrixon — fyi, just updated the original gist for some changes deployed today.