How to use Elasticsearch on Heroku

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Kyle Decot picture Kyle Decot · Dec 14, 2011 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

I've just finished watching both Railscasts' episodes on Elasticsearch. I've also went ahead and implemented it into my rails application (3.1) and everything is working great. How I want to deploy my app to Heroku but I'm unsure how to get Elasticsearch working on Heroku (specifically on a cedar stack).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer

Ryan Long picture Ryan Long · Dec 22, 2011

You can very easily [and freely ;-)] roll your own ElasticSearch server on Amazon EC2, and just connect to it with your app. This is what we're doing, and it's working nicely...

http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/

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