Multiple Elasticsearch Indexes

Question

I have a staging & production instance of a Rails 3 application (using the tire gem) on the same Ubuntu server. It appears that both of these instances are sharing the same elasticsearch index which obviously isn't what I want.

How can I get my production and staging instances to use separate instances?

Answer 1

You need override the index name. Assuming you're tying into ActiveRecord it will create an index name based on the model in question. You could adjust the name with a prefix like so;

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

  include Tire::Model::Search
  include Tire::Model::Callbacks

  index_prefix "#{Rails.env}" 

  ...

which would then create an index named development_articles, production_articles etc. It's important the the index_prefix comes after the Tire includes.

Or alternatively rename the index entirely

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

  include Tire::Model::Search
  include Tire::Model::Callbacks

  index_name "My-Development-Article-Index" 

  ...