vemcg/Portfolio-Project-1-User-Stories — pull request #21 by hiddenone (2013-11-17 06:48:03+00:00)
Title: Elastic search

This branch shows how to install and start elasticsearch and add all current indexes into elasticsearch and adds a full-text search box. See InstallandStartElasticSearchEngine.

On the heroku side there are at least two free ways to use elasticsearch:

Do this search to see what possibilities on heroku are:
https://addons.heroku.com/?q=elasticsearch

These two should be compatible with the tire gem. You will have to look at each of these to see what version of elasticsearch engine they use. I did not see any documentation about what version of java (6 0r 7) these use.
1. searchboxi. (see https://addons.heroku.com/searchbox)
2. bonsai (see https://addons.heroku.com/bonsai)