elastic/elasticsearch-rails

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Official Elasticsearch integrations for Ruby on Rails, provided as three gems: elasticsearch-model (ActiveModel/ActiveRecord/Mongoid search integration), elasticsearch-persistence (repository pattern persistence), and elasticsearch-rails (Rails conveniences like rake import tasks and instrumentation). It lets Rails models be indexed into and searched via Elasticsearch 8.x.

Use cases

• add full-text search to Rails ActiveRecord models with Elasticsearch
• index and sync ActiveRecord records into Elasticsearch
• search results returned as ActiveRecord relations with pagination
• persist plain Ruby objects in Elasticsearch via repository pattern
• rake tasks to bulk import model data into Elasticsearch
• integrate Elasticsearch with Mongoid models

When to choose

• you have a Ruby on Rails or Ruby app using ActiveRecord or Mongoid and want Elasticsearch-backed search
• you want model callbacks, mappings, and import tasks wired up automatically
• you want search results as enumerable records with Kaminari/WillPaginate pagination

When to avoid

• your project is not Ruby/Rails
• you use OpenSearch or a non-Elasticsearch search engine
• you only need a raw Elasticsearch client without model integration (use elasticsearch-ruby instead)

Facets

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search-engine orm database-driver web-development databases backend ruby jvm elasticsearch rails activerecord activemodel ruby-gem full-text-search search

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