Configuring Tire to work with Bonsai

configuring tire for bonsai.md

1. Configure Tire to use the Bonsai ElasticSearch Heroku add-on

gem 'tire'

config/initializers/bonsai.rb

ENV['ELASTICSEARCH_URL'] = ENV['BONSAI_URL']

app/models/article.rb

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

2. Create the index and import your documents

rake environment tire:import CLASS=Article FORCE=true

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Known issues

There are no "known issues" with Tire and Bonsai at the moment. Having trouble with something in particular? Drop us a line at support@bonsai.io.

• Custom index analyzers must be set at index creation time. Ability to dynamically create, modify and destroy indexes.
• 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
• Undefined method [] for nil:NilClass on index.settings. Bonsai shared cluster indices are mapped to a random identifier, whereas Tire expects the logical index name in the _index response. To be fixed within Bonsai. Email support@bonsai.io if this is affecting you. Issue 386
• ES Alias API not fully supported in Bonsai. Email support@bonsai.io if you would like to beta test that.

miry, I have the same problem as well. I'm looking into creating an index that the merged version of the index I'd like to search.

@miry and @Will-Sommers, this issue is on my end. I still have some work to do for supporting multi-index search syntax in Elasticsearch. I'll take a stab at that this week.

@miry @Will-Sommers — in the mean time, merging into a combined index (as per the "optional" in the instructions) should work fine for your purposes. You can then execute searches with:

Tire.search(INDEX_NAME) { query { string 'hello world' } }

Just to note, I've had to write a shell script to create my index with the proper analyzers and scoring. When importing multiple types into a single index only the first model takes settings in my experience.

Can anyone point me in the direction of an explanation / more information regarding this please? -

# Optional, but recommended: use a single index per application per environment.
# Caveat: This convention not be entirely supported throughout Tire's API.

Is the default to have an index for each model?

What's the advantages/disadvantages of a single index for the app?

How many indexes do Bonsai allow?

Thanks,

Ian

This was a helpful gist, thanks for posting it up.

@ichilton—

Is the default to have an index for each model?

This is Tire's default, yes.

What's the advantages/disadvantages of a single index for the app?

Each index carries its own overhead, and multiple indices can be wasteful for small applications. It is negligible, but in a shared cluster environment, that adds up. Creating an index per model can help as an additional level of natural partitioning, but in most cases that is premature optimization, and you will be better served by consolidating into a single index per environment.

The main disadvantage for using a single index with Tire is that it doesn't always fit within Tire's conventions. If you ever have trouble related to index naming conventions, you should just stick with Tire's defaults.

How many indexes do Bonsai allow?

The total primary shards varies per plan. All plans should be able to comfortable index 2–3 models. We're still working on exactly where to set those numbers, so email me at support@bonsai.io if you ever bump into those limits.

@aarongray—

Thanks! Happy to help.

I have the same problem as @pawel2105 had and wonder what is the solution? Via curl locally all works fine. But I get this error when I try to import.

→ heroku run rake environment tire:import CLASS=Initiative FORCE=true
Running rake environment tire:import CLASS=Initiative FORCE=true attached to terminal... up, run.5891
[IMPORT] Deleting index 'stadt-gestalten-production'
rake aborted!
Server broke connection
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:182:in rescue in transmit' /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:140:intransmit'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:64:in execute' /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:33:inexecute'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient.rb:88:in head' /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/tire-0.6.0/lib/tire/http/client.rb:43:inhead'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/tire-0.6.0/lib/tire/index.rb:18:in exists?' /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/tire-0.6.0/lib/tire/tasks.rb:14:increate_index'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/tire-0.6.0/lib/tire/tasks.rb:110:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
Tasks: TOP => tire:import => tire:import:model

Hi @criscrossed, you should email support@bonsai.io with your account information so I can check that out.

Updated the setup instructions to remove the "optional" combined index strategy. Our plans offer sufficient shards these days to support most common index-per-model sharding strategies.

@nz - have you switched over to elasticsearch-rails gem? i'm trying to install it and it's giving me problems with Faraday.