kicksearch

Elasticsearch Demo with Rails 🔎💎

kicksearch in action

kicksearch is a simple rails app to demonstrate the usage of Elasticsearch and Searchkik with Rails.

✨ Features

• Uses Searchkick for Model data search powered by Elasticsearch
• Uses turbo to render search result data

Setup

⚡ Requirements

• rails 7
• a working elasticsearch instance running on port 9200

Follow this tutorial to install with docker.

You can disable security locally if you want by using this config

🚀 Installation

git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/kicksearch
cd kicksearch

# Setup elasticsearch config, es01 is the container name here
docker cp ./elasticsearch.yml es01:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.yml

💻 Usage

bundle install
bin/rails db:migrate
bin/rails s

If you do not see search results, try running Post.reindex from rails console.

Behind The Code

🌈 Inspiration

Was integrating elasticsearch for a work project, decided to learn by doing

💡 Challenges/Learnings

• Initial setup of elasticsearch with security was a bit tricky
• I learned about Searchkick and Turbo usage.

🧰 Tooling

• Dotfiles — Dev Environment
• nvim2k — Personalized Editor

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