movies-search

An example application for integrating Rails 5 API with Elasticsearch. Read a more in depth explaination on https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-add-a-powerful-search-engine-to-your-rails-backend-57bced889032

Usage

Download Elasticsearch

wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-6.2.3.zip
unzip elasticsearch-6.2.3.zip

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/domangi/movies-search.git

Enter the application folder and run bundle install

cd movies-search; bundle install

Run migrations

rails db:migrate

Configure ElasticSearch

Open config/elasticsearch.yml and change your elasticsearch binary path if needed.

Run tests

To be sure that your setup is working run the test suite.

bundle exec rpsec

Add example data

You can prepopulate your movies database from a large dataset published on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/rounakbanik/the-movies-dataset):

First start your elasticsearch server so that the data can be indexed while it is created. You can start your elasticsearch server by running:

elasticsearch-6.2.3/bin/elasticsearch

Now run the seed script to import the dataset

rails db:seed

Run the server

rails s

API

Url: GET /api/v1/movies

Params: q=[string] required

Example request: GET /api/v1/movies?q=Roman

Example response:

    [
      {
        "_index":"movies",
        "_type":"movie",
        "_id":"95088",
        "_score":11.549209,
        "_source":
        {
          "id":95088,
          "title":"Roma",
          "overview":"A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.", "image_url":"https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/rqK75R3tTz2iWU0AQ6tLz3KMOU1.jpg",
          "vote_average":6.6,
          "created_at":"2018-04-14T10:30:49.110Z",
          "updated_at":"2018-04-14T10:30:49.110Z"
        }
      },
      ...
    ]