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The Ruby Clientedit

The elasticsearch Rubygem provides a low-level client for communicating with an Elasticsearch cluster, fully compatible with other official clients.

Full documentation is hosted at Github and RubyDoc — this documentation provides only an overview of features.

Elasticsearch Version Compatibilityedit

The Ruby API is compatible with both Elasticsearch 0.90.x and 1.0.x versions, you have to install a matching gem version, though:

Elasticsearch version Ruby gem version

0.90.x

0.4.x

1.x

1.x

Installationedit

Install the Ruby gem for Elasticsearch 1.x:

gem install elasticsearch

…or add it do your Gemfile:

gem 'elasticsearch'

Install the Ruby gem for Elasticsearch 0.90.x:

gem install elasticsearch -v 0.4.10

…or add it do your Gemfile:

gem 'elasticsearch', '~> 0.4'

Example Usageedit

require 'elasticsearch'

client = Elasticsearch::Client.new log: true

client.cluster.health

client.index index: 'my-index', type: 'my-document', id: 1, body: { title: 'Test' }

client.indices.refresh index: 'my-index'

client.search index: 'my-index', body: { query: { match: { title: 'test' } } }

Features at a Glanceedit

  • Pluggable logging and tracing
  • Pluggable connection selection strategies (round-robin, random, custom)
  • Pluggable transport implementation, customizable and extendable
  • Pluggable serializer implementation
  • Request retries and dead connections handling
  • Node reloading (based on cluster state) on errors or on demand
  • Modular API implementation
  • 100% REST API coverage

Transport and APIedit

The elasticsearch gem combines two separate Rubygems:

Please see their respective documentation for configuration options and technical details.

Notably, the documentation and comprehensive examples for all the API methods is contained in the source, and available online at Rubydoc.

Keep in mind, that for optimal performance, you should use a HTTP library which supports persistent ("keep-alive") HTTP connections.

Extensionsedit

The elasticsearch-extensions Rubygem provides a number of extensions to the core client, such as an API to programatically launch Elasticsearch clusters (eg. for testing purposes), and more.

Please see its documentation for more information.

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