Advanced Search, Autocomplete and Suggestions with ElasticSearch and the Searchkick gem Discussion

Chris, this is awesome!

I was hoping you'd do a Searchkick/ElasticSearch video since you did the Ransack video!

Thanks for all the great videos!

Great video!

Thanks Chris – another great tutorial!

What about if you want to search through more than 1 items, with a separate MVC.
Say you have Questions and Answers. I tried modifying the search form but it seems
there are lot more areas to look at.

Thanks for your this great video @excid3:disqus . I advise people to use Algolia if they want to use a database search https://blog.algolia.com/fu...

can we please have the github link?

Hello Chris....
If I have many models and I want a common search that works for all the models and gives results from all models in common search result page then how is this possible?

Thanks for the tutorial. I tried to install elasticsearch but i get an error. I explained the full error in this post http://goo.gl/cqVFyl in stackoverflow.

Hello Chris, I included elastic-search as you explained in the tutorial... working perfectly on local... but when I put on digitalocean server, they blocked my droplet that network is not secure with process of elastic search and If I get it stop and secure it then will open... How I can secure the elastic search for production server?

I have just finished the One Month class on RAILS and checked into this. (which is obviously a bit more advanced). How does one generate a Questions controller or does that arrive when you bundle instal the search gem?

Is anyone else having this problem? http://stackoverflow.com/qu...

I've been trying to install elastic search but ran into some issues with homebrew and java. I recently upgraded to Yosemti and it seems to be the issue. Anyone know of a fix

Any thoughts on how to highlight results?

I am trying to follow along with this but I get this error when I try Article.reindex (equivalent of Question.reindex)

NoMethodError: undefined method `reindex'

In the console, I try: Article.reindex

It returns:
NoMethodError: undefined method `reindex' for Article (call 'Article.connection' to establish a connection):Class

Also, when I try to run the local host, I get this error:

Index missing - run Article.reindex
# GET /articles.json
def index
@articles = Article.search(params[:q])
end

# GET /articles/1

For me:

def index
query = params[:q].presence || "*"
@articles = Article.search(query)
end

gives this error:

MissingIndexError in ArticlesController#index
Index missing - run Article.reindex

My key difference is that:

I use simple form for forms, so i made a new partial to insert in my articles index as:

<%= simple_form_for(@article) do |f| %>

<%=f.text :q, :nil, placeholder: "Search" %>

<% end %>

TOTAL NUMPTY: I DIDN'T INSTALL THE GEM. SORRY!

Thanks for the awesome video! Switched from sphinx to elasticsearch. Much easier!

How would I search a Post model where I wanted only see published post? Can't figure out how the code should look in the controller index.

And just like that, all my troubles disappear. Thanks man!

How can I add 'will paginate' to the search results... in class PostsController < ApplicationController?
I currently have this;

if query = params[:post_search].presence || "*"
@posts = Post.search(query, suggest: true)

Thanks for the video Chris. I am having issues with the autocomplete part. I have jquery-ui loaded and everything done up to the point where I try to test the libraries are loading (up to 17:32mins into the video. My first autocomplete test does not show anything (was expecting the word TEST would show as in your case). When I inspect the element, I see the following error:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) - https://bakr-fgneba.c9users...
When i click on the link i see the error (Couldn't find Post with 'id'=autocomplete). Looks like something to do with routing.

My route is defined as:

resources :posts do
get :autocomplete
end

Any idea why this could be happening?

Hi Chris, i've tried using Bonsai and SearchBox for deploying to Heroku and both are a nightmare to get working. Do you have any recommendations on deploying to Heroku?

Hi Chris!

I love the videos! I've been stuck on this problem for a while and tried StackOverflow(http://stackoverflow.com/qu... but with no response and I know you're busy but I thought I'd try.

I have forums(the parent model) that have many forum_threads but each forum_thread is unique to that certain forum. I'd like to be able to search each forum (which IS working just fine) as well as each forum_thread within that unique forum(which is just rendering ALL forum_threads rather than the searched thread). Would you be so kind as to take a look at my SO question and see what I'm doing wrong?

Has anyone else had a problem with search_data like this: https://gorails.com/forum/s... ?