elasticsearch-rails
A suite of Ruby gems providing seamless Elasticsearch integration for ActiveModel/Record, Rails applications, and Ruby objects.
What is elasticsearch-rails?
Elasticsearch Rails is a suite of Ruby gems that provide deep integration between Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails applications. It enables developers to easily add full-text search, complex queries, and Elasticsearch-based persistence to their ActiveRecord models, Mongoid documents, and plain Ruby objects. The project abstracts away the complexities of the Elasticsearch client API, offering a familiar, Rails-like interface for search operations.
Ruby on Rails developers and Rubyists who need to integrate Elasticsearch for search functionality or as a primary data store. It's particularly useful for teams building applications with advanced search requirements, such as e-commerce platforms, content management systems, or data analytics dashboards.
Developers choose Elasticsearch Rails because it's the official, maintained Elasticsearch integration for the Ruby ecosystem, ensuring compatibility and reliability. It significantly reduces boilerplate code, provides Rails-idiomatic APIs (like model callbacks and scopes), and includes production-ready features like pagination support and instrumentation out of the box.
Overview
Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on Rails
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