#SEARCHCLIENT.RUBY This is intended as an extremely simple starting point for creating middleware for Elasticsearch, a place to manage queries and results. It uses the Elasticsearch Ruby client and Grape, "An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby"

The current implementation allows you to pass a query into Elasticsearch using the "query" parameter, it will do a match query on the _all field, and write out the unmodified JSON response.

The server runs on localhost:9292 as default.

Sample request:

	http://localhost:9292/search?query=ipa

##Requirements tested in ruby version 1.9.3 and version 2.0

Installation

To install the necessary packages:

	sudo bundle install

on windows you may need to install ruby dev tools

#RUNNING THE SERVER type in the following command

rackup

##CONFIGURATION .env file contains settings for elasticsearch server and index

	ES_SERVER=http://localhost:9200
	ES_INDEX=

To search in your preferred index, set the ES_INDEX option