Elasticsearch on Rails

Presented at http://www.meetup.com/South-West-ElasticSearch-Community/events/220477878/

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1. Elasticsearch on Rails
   

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2. ANDREW NESBITT
   

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3. Distributed full text search
   Based on Lucene
   RESTful web interface
   JSON NoSQL document store
   Scalable multi-tenancy
   What is Elasticsearch?
   

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4. Web Application Framework
   Model View Controller
   Active Record ORM
   Convention over Configuration
   Extracted from Basecamp
   What is Ruby on Rails?
   

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5. Full Text Search
   Sorting
   Filtering
   Faceting
   Pagination
   What can we do with it?
   Boosting
   Stemming
   Highlighting
   Document storage
   Analytics
   

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6. github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-rails
   

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7. elasticsearch-model
   elasticsearch-rails
   elasticsearch-persistence
   elasticsearch gems
   

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8. ActiveRecord and Mongoid integration
   ActiveRecord::Relation-based Search
   Kaminari and WillPaginate pagination
   Model Serialization to JSON
   Automatic indexing updating callbacks
   elasticsearch-model
   

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9. Rake tasks for importing data to ES
   ActiveSupport Instrumentation
   Example application Templates generation
   elasticsearch-rails
   

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10. Use elasticsearch as a NoSQL database to
    store and retrieve documents using an
    ActiveModel interface.
    elasticsearch-persistence
    

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12. LIVE
    CODING
    

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13. http://libraries.io
    

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14. "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”
    Sir Isaac Newton
    

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15. Popular?
    Active?
    License?
    Documented?
    Contributor friendly?
    Follows SemVer?
    High bus factor?
    Is it dependable?
    How do you know if a
    library is worth using?
    

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16. It works by counting the number and
    quality of links to a page to
    determine a rough estimate of how
    important the website is.
    !
    The underlying assumption is that more
    important websites are likely to receive
    more links from other websites.
    

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17. It works by counting the number and
    quality of dependencies to a library to
    determine a rough estimate of how
    important the library is.
    !
    The underlying assumption is that more
    dependable libraries are likely to be
    more dependent on by other libraries.
    

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19. activesupport
    rails
    memcached
    devise
    waffleiron
    activemerchant
    

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20. 760,425 projects
    from
    24 package managers
    in
    152 different languages
    

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21. LIVE
    DEMOING
    

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22. github.com/ankane/searchkick
    

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23. Good defaults
    SQL-like query interface
    Zero-downtime reindexing
    Autocomplete
    Lots of nice little touches
    searchkick
    

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24. github.com/toptal/chewy
    

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25. Multi-model indexes
    Atomic bulk imports
    Powerful query DSL
    Every index is observable
    by all related models
    chewy
    

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26. Deployment
    Elasticsearch::Model.client =
    Elasticsearch::Client.new url: ENV['ELASTICSEARCH_URL']
    

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27. found.no
    qbox.io
    bonsai.io
    compose.io/elasticsearch
    indexisto.com
    Hosted Services
    

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28. github.com/Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic
    

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29. Thanks!
    @teabass
    http://nesbitt.io
    github.com/andrew
    

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