How do I get Rails 3.1 with ElasticSearch & Tire working on Heroku Cedar Stack?

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I'm having trouble getting Tire working using ElasticSearch with the Bonsai addon on the Heroku Cedar stack. It keeps crashing my app and when I check the Heroku logs (i.e. run heroku logs in Terminal), I Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2)).

The setup works fine on my localhost. I've been all through the Elastic search resources and haven't found a fix yet.

Can anyone provide some assistance or guidance?

Joe Saunders · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-06T18:00:25.973

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I finally found it... Through an obscure link on the Heroku Bonsai helps. I did this and it worked: Configuring Tire to use the Bonsai ElasticSearch Heroku add-on

Here's a little more clarification on what I did to fix it.. In config/initializers/bonsai.rb:

  if ENV['BONSAI_INDEX_URL']
   Tire.configure do
    url "http://index.bonsai.io"
   end
   BONSAI_INDEX_NAME = ENV['BONSAI_INDEX_URL'][/[^\/]+$/]
  else
    app_name = Rails.application.class.parent_name.underscore.dasherize
    app_env = Rails.env
    BONSAI_INDEX_NAME = "#{app_name}-#{app_env}"
  end

edited Mar 06 '13 at 18:00

answered Jun 13 '12 at 21:41

Joe Saunders

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What did you put in the ELASTICSEARCH_URL? the Full access link to the API? – Mar 06 '13 at 17:15
I followed ernesto-jimenez's comment on the link in my answer... I'll revise my answer to include the code. – Joe Saunders Mar 06 '13 at 17:54
SHUMAcupcake: Did that get you what you need? – Joe Saunders Mar 06 '13 at 21:48
No really, but found out what was wrong. I forget to index it in production mode. thanks anyway dude, you are awesome! – Mar 06 '13 at 21:49

How do I get Rails 3.1 with ElasticSearch & Tire working on Heroku Cedar Stack?

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