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Chewy is an ODM (Object Document Mapper), built on top of the the official Elasticsearch client.

In this section we'll cover why you might want to use Chewy instead of the official elasticsearch-ruby client gem.

• Every index is observable by all the related models.

  Most of the indexed models are related to other and sometimes it is necessary to denormalize this related data and put at the same object. For example, you need to index an array of tags together with an article. Chewy allows you to specify an updateable index for every model separately - so corresponding articles will be reindexed on any tag update.

• Bulk import everywhere.

  Chewy utilizes the bulk ES API for full reindexing or index updates. It also uses atomic updates. All the changed objects are collected inside the atomic block and the index is updated once at the end with all the collected objects. See Chewy.strategy(:atomic) for more details.

• Powerful querying DSL.

  Chewy has an ActiveRecord-style query DSL. It is chainable, mergeable and lazy, so you can produce queries in the most efficient way. It also has object-oriented query and filter builders.

• Support for ActiveRecord.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'chewy'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install chewy

Chewy is compatible with MRI 2.6-3.01.

1 Ruby 3 is only supported with Rails 6.1

Important: Chewy doesn't follow SemVer, so you should always check the release notes before upgrading. The major version is linked to the newest supported Elasticsearch and the minor version bumps may include breaking changes.

See our migration guide for detailed upgrade instructions between various Chewy versions.

5.2, 6.0, 6.1 Active Record versions are supported by all Chewy versions.

Chewy provides functionality for Elasticsearch index handling, documents import mappings, index update strategies and chainable query DSL.

Create config/initializers/chewy.rb with this line:

Chewy.settings = {host: 'localhost:9250'}

And run rails g chewy:install to generate chewy.yml:

# config/chewy.yml
# separate environment configs
test:
 host: 'localhost:9250'
 prefix: 'test'
development:
 host: 'localhost:9200'

Make sure you have Elasticsearch up and running. You can install it locally, but the easiest way is to use Docker:

$ docker run --rm --name elasticsearch -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e "discovery.type=single-node" elasticsearch:7.11.1

Create app/chewy/users_index.rb with User Index:

class UsersIndex < Chewy::Index
 settings analysis: {
 analyzer: {
 email: {
 tokenizer: 'keyword',
 filter: ['lowercase']
 }
 }
 }
 index_scope User
 field :first_name
 field :last_name
 field :email, analyzer: 'email'
end

Add User model, table and migrate it:

$ bundle exec rails g model User first_name last_name email
$ bundle exec rails db:migrate

Add update_index to app/models/user.rb:

class User < ApplicationRecord
 update_index('users') { self }
end

1. Once a record is created (could be done via the Rails console), it creates User index too:

User.create(
 first_name: "test1",
 last_name: "test1",
 email: 'test1@example.com',
 # other fields
)
# UsersIndex Import (355.3ms) {:index=>1}
# => #<User id: 1, first_name: "test1", last_name: "test1", email: "test1@example.com", # other fields>

2. A query could be exposed at a given UsersController:

def search
 @users = UsersIndex.query(query_string: { fields: [:first_name, :last_name, :email, ...], query: search_params[:query], default_operator: 'and' })
 render json: @users.to_json, status: :ok
end
private
def search_params
 params.permit(:query, :page, :per)
end

3. So a request against http://localhost:3000/users/search?query=test1@example.com issuing a response like:

[
 {
 "attributes":{
 "id":"1",
 "first_name":"test1",
 "last_name":"test1",
 "email":"test1@example.com",
 ...
 "_score":0.9808291,
 "_explanation":null
 },
 "_data":{
 "_index":"users",
 "_type":"_doc",
 "_id":"1",
 "_score":0.9808291,
 "_source":{
 "first_name":"test1",
 "last_name":"test1",
 "email":"test1@example.com",
 ...
 }
 }
 }
]

To configure the Chewy client you need to add chewy.rb file with Chewy.settings hash:

# config/initializers/chewy.rb
Chewy.settings = {host: 'localhost:9250'} # do not use environments

And add chewy.yml configuration file.

You can create chewy.yml manually or run rails g chewy:install to generate it:

# config/chewy.yml
# separate environment configs
test:
 host: 'localhost:9250'
 prefix: 'test'
development:
 host: 'localhost:9200'

The resulting config merges both hashes. Client options are passed as is to Elasticsearch::Transport::Client except for the :prefix, which is used internally by Chewy to create prefixed index names:

 Chewy.settings = {prefix: 'test'}
 UsersIndex.index_name # => 'test_users'

The logger may be set explicitly:

Chewy.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)

See config.rb for more details.

If you would like to use AWS's Elasticsearch using an IAM user policy, you will need to sign your requests for the es:* action by injecting the appropriate headers passing a proc to transport_options. You'll need an additional gem for Faraday middleware: add gem 'faraday_middleware-aws-sigv4' to your Gemfile.

require 'faraday_middleware/aws_sigv4'
Chewy.settings = {
 host: 'http://my-es-instance-on-aws.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com:80',
 port: 80, # 443 for https host
 transport_options: {
 headers: { content_type: 'application/json' },
 proc: -> (f) do
 f.request :aws_sigv4,
 service: 'es',
 region: 'us-east-1',
 access_key_id: ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY'],
 secret_access_key: ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']
 end
 }
}

1. Create /app/chewy/users_index.rb

class UsersIndex < Chewy::Index
end

2. Define index scope (you can omit this part if you don't need to specify a scope (i.e. use PORO objects for import) or options)

class UsersIndex < Chewy::Index
 index_scope User.active # or just model instead_of scope: index_scope User
end

3. Add some mappings

class UsersIndex < Chewy::Index
 index_scope User.active.includes(:country, :badges, :projects)
 field :first_name, :last_name # multiple fields without additional options
 field :email, analyzer: 'email' # Elasticsearch-related options
 field :country, value: ->(user) { user.country.name } # custom value proc
 field :badges, value: ->(user) { user.badges.map(&:name) } # passing array values to index
 field :projects do # the same block syntax for multi_field, if `:type` is specified
 field :title
 field :description # default data type is `text`
 # additional top-level objects passed to value proc:
 field :categories, value: ->(project, user) { project.categories.map(&:name) if user.active? }
 end
 field :rating, type: 'integer' # custom data type
 field :created, type: 'date', include_in_all: false,
 value: ->{ created_at } # value proc for source object context
end

See here for mapping definitions.

4. Add some index-related settings. Analyzer repositories might be used as well. See Chewy::Index.settings docs for details:

class UsersIndex < Chewy::Index
 settings analysis: {
 analyzer: {
 email: {
 tokenizer: 'keyword',
 filter: ['lowercase']
 }
 }
 }
 index_scope User.active.includes(:country, :badges, :projects)
 root date_detection: false do
 template 'about_translations.*', type: 'text', analyzer: 'standard'
 field :first_name, :last_name
 field :email, analyzer: 'email'
 field :country, value: ->(user) { user.country.name }
 field :badges, value: ->(user) { user.badges.map(&:name) }
 field :projects do
 field :title
 field :description
 end
 field :about_translations, type: 'object' # pass object type explicitly if necessary
 field :rating, type: 'integer'
 field :created, type: 'date', include_in_all: false,
 value: ->{ created_at }
 end
end

See index settings here. See root object settings here.

See mapping.rb for more details.

5. Add model-observing code

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
 update_index('users') { self } # specifying index and back-reference
 # for updating after user save or destroy
end
class Country < ActiveRecord::Base
 has_many :users
 update_index('users') { users } # return single object or collection
end
class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
 update_index('users') { user if user.active? } # you can return even `nil` from the back-reference
end
class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
 update_index(->(book) {"books_#{book.language}"}) { self } # dynamic index name with proc.
 # For book with language == "en"
 # this code will generate `books_en`
end

Also, you can use the second argument for method name passing:

update_index('users', :self)
update_index('users', :users)

In the case of a belongs_to association you may need to update both associated objects, previous and current:

class City < ActiveRecord::Base
 belongs_to :country
 update_index('cities') { self }
 update_index 'countries' do
 previous_changes['country_id'] || country
 end
end

Every index has default_import_options configuration to specify, suddenly, default import options:

class ProductsIndex < Chewy::Index
 index_scope Post.includes(:tags)
 default_import_options batch_size: 100, bulk_size: 10.megabytes, refresh: false
 field :name
 field :tags, value: -> { tags.map(&:name) }
end

See import.rb for available options.

To define an objects field you can simply nest fields in the DSL:

field :projects do
 field :title
 field :description
end

This will automatically set the type or root field to object. You may also specify type: 'objects' explicitly.

To define a multi field you have to specify any type except for object or nested in the root field:

field :full_name, type: 'text', value: ->{ full_name.strip } do
 field :ordered, analyzer: 'ordered'
 field :untouched, type: 'keyword'
end

The value: option for internal fields will no longer be effective.

You can use Elasticsearch's geo mapping with the geo_point field type, allowing you to query, filter and order by latitude and longitude. You can use the following hash format:

field :coordinates, type: 'geo_point', value: ->{ {lat: latitude, lon: longitude} }

or by using nested fields:

field :coordinates, type: 'geo_point' do
 field :lat, value: ->{ latitude }
 field :long, value: ->{ longitude }
end

See the section on Script fields for details on calculating distance in a search.

Assume you are defining your index like this (product has_many categories through product_categories):

class ProductsIndex < Chewy::Index
 index_scope Product.includes(:categories)
 field :name
 field :category_names, value: ->(product) { product.categories.map(&:name) } # or shorter just -> { categories.map(&:name) }
end

Then the Chewy reindexing flow will look like the following pseudo-code:

Product.includes(:categories).find_in_batches(1000) do |batch|
 bulk_body = batch.map do |object|
 {name: object.name, category_names: object.categories.map(&:name)}.to_json
 end
 # here we are sending every batch of data to ES
 Chewy.client.bulk bulk_body
end

If you meet complicated cases when associations are not applicable you can replace Rails associations with Chewy CrutchesTM technology:

class ProductsIndex < Chewy::Index
 index_scope Product
 crutch :categories do |collection| # collection here is a current batch of products
 # data is fetched with a lightweight query without objects initialization
 data = ProductCategory.joins(:category).where(product_id: collection.map(&:id)).pluck(:product_id, 'categories.name')
 # then we have to convert fetched data to appropriate format
 # this will return our data in structure like:
 # {123 => ['sweets', 'juices'], 456 => ['meat']}
 data.each.with_object({}) { |(id, name), result| (result[id] ||= []).push(name) }
 end
 field :name
 # simply use crutch-fetched data as a value:
 field :category_names, value: ->(product, crutches) { crutches.categories[product.id] }
end

An example flow will look like this:

Product.includes(:categories).find_in_batches(1000) do |batch|
 crutches[:categories] = ProductCategory.joins(:category).where(product_id: batch.map(&:id)).pluck(:product_id, 'categories.name')
 .each.with_object({}) { |(id, name), result| (result[id] ||= []).push(name) }
 bulk_body = batch.map do |object|
 {name: object.name, category_names: crutches[:categories][object.id]}.to_json
 end
 Chewy.client.bulk bulk_body
end

So Chewy CrutchesTM technology is able to increase your indexing performance in some cases up to a hundredfold or even more depending on your associations complexity.

One more experimental technology to increase import performance. As far as you know, chewy defines value proc for every imported field in mapping, so at the import time each of this procs is executed on imported object to extract result document to import. It would be great for performance to use one huge whole-document-returning proc instead. So basically the idea or WitchcraftTM technology is to compile a single document-returning proc from the index definition.

index_scope Product
witchcraft!
field :title
field :tags, value: -> { tags.map(&:name) }
field :categories do
 field :name, value: -> (product, category) { category.name }
 field :type, value: -> (product, category, crutch) { crutch.types[category.name] }
end

The index definition above will be compiled to something close to:

-> (object, crutches) do
 {
 title: object.title,
 tags: object.tags.map(&:name),
 categories: object.categories.map do |object2|
 {
 name: object2.name
 type: crutches.types[object2.name]
 }
 end
 }
end

And don't even ask how is it possible, it is a witchcraft. Obviously not every type of definition might be compiled. There are some restrictions:

1. Use reasonable formatting to make method_source be able to extract field value proc sources.
2. Value procs with splat arguments are not supported right now.
3. If you are generating fields dynamically use value proc with arguments, argumentless value procs are not supported yet:

[:first_name, :last_name].each do |name|
 field name, value: -> (o) { o.send(name) }
end

However, it is quite possible that your index definition will be supported by WitchcraftTM technology out of the box in the most of the cases.

Another way to speed up import time is Raw Imports. This technology is only available in ActiveRecord adapter. Very often, ActiveRecord model instantiation is what consumes most of the CPU and RAM resources. Precious time is wasted on converting, say, timestamps from strings and then serializing them back to strings. Chewy can operate on raw hashes of data directly obtained from the database. All you need is to provide a way to convert that hash to a lightweight object that mimics the behaviour of the normal ActiveRecord object.

class LightweightProduct
 def initialize(attributes)
 @attributes = attributes
 end
 # Depending on the database, `created_at` might
 # be in different formats. In PostgreSQL, for example,
 # you might see the following format:
 # "2016-03-22 16:23:22"
 #
 # Taking into account that Elastic expects something different,
 # one might do something like the following, just to avoid
 # unnecessary String -> DateTime -> String conversion.
 #
 # "2016-03-22 16:23:22" -> "2016-03-22T16:23:22Z"
 def created_at
 @attributes['created_at'].tr(' ', 'T') << 'Z'
 end
end
index_scope Product
default_import_options raw_import: ->(hash) {
 LightweightProduct.new(hash)
}
field :created_at, 'datetime'

Also, you can pass :raw_import option to the import method explicitly.

By default, when you perform import Chewy checks whether an index exists and creates it if it's absent. You can turn off this feature to decrease Elasticsearch hits count. To do so you need to set skip_index_creation_on_import parameter to false in your config/chewy.yml

You can use ignore_blank: true to skip fields that return true for the .blank? method:

index_scope Country
field :id
field :cities, ignore_blank: true do
 field :id
 field :name
 field :surname, ignore_blank: true
 field :description
end

By default ignore_blank is false on every type except geo_point.

You can record all actions that were made to the separate journal index in ElasticSearch. When you create/update/destroy your documents, it will be saved in this special index. If you make something with a batch of documents (e.g. during index reset) it will be saved as a one record, including primary keys of each document that was affected. Common journal record looks like this:

{
 "action": "index",
 "object_id": [1, 2, 3],
 "index_name": "...",
 "created_at": "<timestamp>"
}

This feature is turned off by default. But you can turn it on by setting journal setting to true in config/chewy.yml. Also, you can specify journal index name. For example:

# config/chewy.yml
production:
 journal: true
 journal_name: my_super_journal

Also, you can provide this option while you're importing some index:

CityIndex.import journal: true

Or as a default import option for an index:

class CityIndex
 index_scope City
 default_import_options journal: true
end

You may be wondering why do you need it? The answer is simple: not to lose the data.

Imagine that you reset your index in a zero-downtime manner (to separate index), and at the meantime somebody keeps updating the data frequently (to old index). So all these actions will be written to the journal index and you'll be able to apply them after index reset using the Chewy::Journal interface.

UsersIndex.delete # destroy index if it exists
UsersIndex.delete!
UsersIndex.create
UsersIndex.create! # use bang or non-bang methods
UsersIndex.purge
UsersIndex.purge! # deletes then creates index
UsersIndex.import # import with 0 arguments process all the data specified in index_scope definition
UsersIndex.import User.where('rating > 100') # or import specified users scope
UsersIndex.import User.where('rating > 100').to_a # or import specified users array
UsersIndex.import [1, 2, 42] # pass even ids for import, it will be handled in the most effective way
UsersIndex.import User.where('rating > 100'), update_fields: [:email] # if update fields are specified - it will update their values only with the `update` bulk action
UsersIndex.reset! # purges index and imports default data for all types

If the passed user is #destroyed?, or satisfies a delete_if index_scope option, or the specified id does not exist in the database, import will perform delete from index action for this object.

index_scope User, delete_if: :deleted_at
index_scope User, delete_if: -> { deleted_at }
index_scope User, delete_if: ->(user) { user.deleted_at }

See actions.rb for more details.

Assume you've got the following code:

class City < ActiveRecord::Base
 update_index 'cities', :self
end
class CitiesIndex < Chewy::Index
 index_scope City
 field :name
end

If you do something like City.first.save! you'll get an UndefinedUpdateStrategy exception instead of the object saving and index updating. This exception forces you to choose an appropriate update strategy for the current context.

If you want to return to the pre-0.7.0 behavior - just set Chewy.root_strategy = :bypass.

The main strategy here is :atomic. Assume you have to update a lot of records in the db.

Chewy.strategy(:atomic) do
 City.popular.map(&:do_some_update_action!)
end

Using this strategy delays the index update request until the end of the block. Updated records are aggregated and the index update happens with the bulk API. So this strategy is highly optimized.

This does the same thing as :atomic, but asynchronously using sidekiq. Patch Chewy::Strategy::Sidekiq::Worker for index updates improving.

Chewy.strategy(:sidekiq) do
 City.popular.map(&:do_some_update_action!)
end

The default queue name is chewy, you can customize it in settings: sidekiq.queue_name

Chewy.settings[:sidekiq] = {queue: :low}

This does the same thing as :atomic, but using ActiveJob. This will inherit the ActiveJob configuration settings including the active_job.queue_adapter setting for the environment. Patch Chewy::Strategy::ActiveJob::Worker for index updates improving.

Chewy.strategy(:active_job) do
 City.popular.map(&:do_some_update_action!)
end

The default queue name is chewy, you can customize it in settings: active_job.queue_name

Chewy.settings[:active_job] = {queue: :low}

The following strategy is convenient if you are going to update documents in your index one by one.

Chewy.strategy(:urgent) do
 City.popular.map(&:do_some_update_action!)
end

This code will perform City.popular.count requests for ES documents update.

It is convenient for use in e.g. the Rails console with non-block notation:

> Chewy.strategy(:urgent)
> City.popular.map(&:do_some_update_action!)

The bypass strategy simply silences index updates.

Strategies are designed to allow nesting, so it is possible to redefine it for nested contexts.

Chewy.strategy(:atomic) do
 city1.do_update!
 Chewy.strategy(:urgent) do
 city2.do_update!
 city3.do_update!
 # there will be 2 update index requests for city2 and city3
 end
 city4..do_update!
 # city1 and city4 will be grouped in one index update request
end

It is possible to nest strategies without blocks:

Chewy.strategy(:urgent)
city1.do_update! # index updated
Chewy.strategy(:bypass)
city2.do_update! # update bypassed
Chewy.strategy.pop
city3.do_update! # index updated again

See strategy/base.rb for more details. See strategy/atomic.rb for an example.

There are a couple of predefined strategies for your Rails application. Initially, the Rails console uses the :urgent strategy by default, except in the sandbox case. When you are running sandbox it switches to the :bypass strategy to avoid polluting the index.

Migrations are wrapped with the :bypass strategy. Because the main behavior implies that indices are reset after migration, there is no need for extra index updates. Also indexing might be broken during migrations because of the outdated schema.

Controller actions are wrapped with the configurable value of Chewy.request_strategy and defaults to :atomic. This is done at the middleware level to reduce the number of index update requests inside actions.

It is also a good idea to set up the :bypass strategy inside your test suite and import objects manually only when needed, and use Chewy.massacre when needed to flush test ES indices before every example. This will allow you to minimize unnecessary ES requests and reduce overhead.

RSpec.configure do |config|
 config.before(:suite) do
 Chewy.strategy(:bypass)
 end
end

All connection options, except the :prefix, are passed to the Elasticseach::Client.new (chewy/lib/chewy.rb):

Here's the relevant Elasticsearch documentation on the subject: https://rubydoc.info/gems/elasticsearch-transport#setting-hosts

Chewy has notifying the following events:

• payload[:index]: requested index class
• payload[:request]: request hash

• payload[:index]: currently imported index name

• payload[:import]: imports stats, total imported and deleted objects count:

  {index: 30, delete: 5}

• payload[:errors]: might not exists. Contains grouped errors with objects ids list:

  {index: {
   'error 1 text' => ['1', '2', '3'],
   'error 2 text' => ['4']
  }, delete: {
   'delete error text' => ['10', '12']
  }}

To integrate with NewRelic you may use the following example source (config/initializers/chewy.rb):

require 'new_relic/agent/instrumentation/evented_subscriber'
class ChewySubscriber < NewRelic::Agent::Instrumentation::EventedSubscriber
 def start(name, id, payload)
 event = ChewyEvent.new(name, Time.current, nil, id, payload)
 push_event(event)
 end
 def finish(_name, id, _payload)
 pop_event(id).finish
 end
 class ChewyEvent < NewRelic::Agent::Instrumentation::Event
 OPERATIONS = {
 'import_objects.chewy' => 'import',
 'search_query.chewy' => 'search',
 'delete_query.chewy' => 'delete'
 }.freeze
 def initialize(*args)
 super
 @segment = start_segment
 end
 def start_segment
 segment = NewRelic::Agent::Transaction::DatastoreSegment.new product, operation, collection, host, port
 if (txn = state.current_transaction)
 segment.transaction = txn
 end
 segment.notice_sql @payload[:request].to_s
 segment.start
 segment
 end
 def finish
 if (txn = state.current_transaction)
 txn.add_segment @segment
 end
 @segment.finish
 end
 private
 def state
 @state ||= NewRelic::Agent::TransactionState.tl_get
 end
 def product
 'Elasticsearch'
 end
 def operation
 OPERATIONS[name]
 end
 def collection
 payload.values_at(:type, :index)
 .reject { |value| value.try(:empty?) }
 .first
 .to_s
 end
 def host
 Chewy.client.transport.hosts.first[:host]
 end
 def port
 Chewy.client.transport.hosts.first[:port]
 end
 end
end
ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe(/.chewy$/, ChewySubscriber.new)

Quick introduction.

The request DSL have the same chainable nature as AR. The main class is Chewy::Search::Request.

CitiesIndex.query(match: {name: 'London'})

Main methods of the request DSL are: query, filter and post_filter, it is possible to pass pure query hashes or use elasticsearch-dsl.

CitiesIndex
 .filter(term: {name: 'Bangkok'})
 .query(match: {name: 'London'})
 .query.not(range: {population: {gt: 1_000_000}})

You can query a set of indexes at once:

CitiesIndex.indices(CountriesIndex).query(match: {name: 'Some'})

See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl.html and https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-ruby/tree/master/elasticsearch-dsl for more details.

An important part of requests manipulation is merging. There are 4 methods to perform it: merge, and, or, not. See Chewy::Search::QueryProxy for details. Also, only and except methods help to remove unneeded parts of the request.

Every other request part is covered by a bunch of additional methods, see Chewy::Search::Request for details:

CitiesIndex.limit(10).offset(30).order(:name, {population: {order: :desc}})

Request DSL also provides additional scope actions, like delete_all, exists?, count, pluck, etc.

The request DSL supports pagination with Kaminari. An extension is enabled on initializtion if Kaminari is available. See Chewy::Search and Chewy::Search::Pagination::Kaminari for details.

Chewy supports named scopes functionality. There is no specialized DSL for named scopes definition, it is simply about defining class methods.

See Chewy::Search::Scoping for details.

ElasticSearch scroll API is utilized by a bunch of methods: scroll_batches, scroll_hits, scroll_wrappers and scroll_objects.

See Chewy::Search::Scrolling for details.

It is possible to load ORM/ODM source objects with the objects method. To provide additional loading options use load method:

CitiesIndex.load(scope: -> { active }).to_a # to_a returns `Chewy::Index` wrappers.
CitiesIndex.load(scope: -> { active }).objects # An array of AR source objects.

See Chewy::Search::Loader for more details.

In case when it is necessary to iterate through both of the wrappers and objects simultaneously, object_hash method helps a lot:

scope = CitiesIndex.load(scope: -> { active })
scope.each do |wrapper|
 scope.object_hash[wrapper]
end

For a Rails application, some index-maintaining rake tasks are defined.

Performs zero-downtime reindexing as described here. So the rake task creates a new index with unique suffix and then simply aliases it to the common index name. The previous index is deleted afterwards (see Chewy::Index.reset! for more details).

rake chewy:reset # resets all the existing indices
rake chewy:reset[users] # resets UsersIndex only
rake chewy:reset[users,cities] # resets UsersIndex and CitiesIndex
rake chewy:reset[-users,cities] # resets every index in the application except specified ones

Performs reset exactly the same way as chewy:reset does, but only when the index specification (setting or mapping) was changed.

It works only when index specification is locked in Chewy::Stash::Specification index. The first run will reset all indexes and lock their specifications.

See Chewy::Stash::Specification and Chewy::Index::Specification for more details.

rake chewy:upgrade # upgrades all the existing indices
rake chewy:upgrade[users] # upgrades UsersIndex only
rake chewy:upgrade[users,cities] # upgrades UsersIndex and CitiesIndex
rake chewy:upgrade[-users,cities] # upgrades every index in the application except specified ones

It doesn't create indexes, it simply imports everything to the existing ones and fails if the index was not created before.

rake chewy:update # updates all the existing indices
rake chewy:update[users] # updates UsersIndex only
rake chewy:update[users,cities] # updates UsersIndex and CitiesIndex
rake chewy:update[-users,cities] # updates every index in the application except UsersIndex and CitiesIndex

Provides a way to synchronize outdated indexes with the source quickly and without doing a full reset. By default field updated_at is used to find outdated records, but this could be customized by outdated_sync_field as described at Chewy::Index::Syncer.

Arguments are similar to the ones taken by chewy:update task.

See Chewy::Index::Syncer for more details.

rake chewy:sync # synchronizes all the existing indices
rake chewy:sync[users] # synchronizes UsersIndex only
rake chewy:sync[users,cities] # synchronizes UsersIndex and CitiesIndex
rake chewy:sync[-users,cities] # synchronizes every index in the application except except UsersIndex and CitiesIndex

This rake task is especially useful during the production deploy. It is a combination of chewy:upgrade and chewy:sync and the latter is called only for the indexes that were not reset during the first stage.

It is not possible to specify any particular indexes for this task as it doesn't make much sense.

Right now the approach is that if some data had been updated, but index definition was not changed (no changes satisfying the synchronization algorithm were done), it would be much faster to perform manual partial index update inside data migrations or even manually after the deploy.

Also, there is always full reset alternative with rake chewy:reset.

Every task described above has its own parallel version. Every parallel rake task takes the number for processes for execution as the first argument and the rest of the arguments are exactly the same as for the non-parallel task version.

https://github.com/grosser/parallel gem is required to use these tasks.

If the number of processes is not specified explicitly - parallel gem tries to automatically derive the number of processes to use.

rake chewy:parallel:reset
rake chewy:parallel:upgrade[4]
rake chewy:parallel:update[4,cities]
rake chewy:parallel:sync[4,-users]
rake chewy:parallel:deploy[4] # performs parallel upgrade and parallel sync afterwards

This namespace contains two tasks for the journal manipulations: chewy:journal:apply and chewy:journal:clean. Both are taking time as the first argument (optional for clean) and a list of indexes exactly as the tasks above. Time can be in any format parsable by ActiveSupport.

rake chewy:journal:apply["$(date -v-1H -u +%FT%TZ)"] # apply journaled changes for the past hour
rake chewy:journal:apply["$(date -v-1H -u +%FT%TZ)",users] # apply journaled changes for the past hour on UsersIndex only

Just add require 'chewy/rspec' to your spec_helper.rb and you will get additional features:

update_index helper mock_elasticsearch_response helper to mock elasticsearch response mock_elasticsearch_response_sources helper to mock elasticsearch response sources build_query matcher to compare request and expected query (returns true/false)

To use mock_elasticsearch_response and mock_elasticsearch_response_sources helpers add include Chewy::Rspec::Helpers to your tests.

See chewy/rspec/ for more details.

Add require 'chewy/minitest' to your test_helper.rb, and then for tests which you'd like indexing test hooks, include Chewy::Minitest::Helpers.

Since you can set :bypass strategy for test suites and manually handle import for the index and manually flush test indices using Chewy.massacre. This will help reduce unnecessary ES requests

But if you require chewy to index/update model regularly in your test suite then you can specify :urgent strategy for documents indexing. Add Chewy.strategy(:urgent) to test_helper.rb.

Also, you can use additional helpers:

mock_elasticsearch_response to mock elasticsearch response mock_elasticsearch_response_sources to mock elasticsearch response sources assert_elasticsearch_query to compare request and expected query (returns true/false)

See chewy/minitest/ for more details.

If you use DatabaseCleaner in your tests with the transaction strategy, you may run into the problem that ActiveRecord's models are not indexed automatically on save despite the fact that you set the callbacks to do this with the update_index method. The issue arises because chewy indices data on after_commit run as default, but all after_commit callbacks are not run with the DatabaseCleaner's' transaction strategy. You can solve this issue by changing the Chewy.use_after_commit_callbacks option. Just add the following initializer in your Rails application:

#config/initializers/chewy.rb
Chewy.use_after_commit_callbacks = !Rails.env.test?

1. Fork it (http://github.com/toptal/chewy/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Implement your changes, cover it with specs and make sure old specs are passing
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request

Use the following Rake tasks to control the Elasticsearch cluster while developing, if you prefer native Elasticsearch installation over the dockerized one:

rake elasticsearch:start # start Elasticsearch cluster on 9250 port for tests
rake elasticsearch:stop # stop Elasticsearch

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