How do I get Rails 3.1 with ElasticSearch & Tire working on Heroku Cedar Stack?

Question

I'm having trouble getting Tire working using ElasticSearch with the Bonsai addon on the Heroku Cedar stack. It keeps crashing my app and when I check the Heroku logs (i.e. run heroku logs in Terminal), I Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2)).

The setup works fine on my localhost. I've been all through the Elastic search resources and haven't found a fix yet.

Can anyone provide some assistance or guidance?

Answer 1

I finally found it... Through an obscure link on the Heroku Bonsai helps. I did this and it worked: Configuring Tire to use the Bonsai ElasticSearch Heroku add-on

Here's a little more clarification on what I did to fix it.. In config/initializers/bonsai.rb:

  if ENV['BONSAI_INDEX_URL']
   Tire.configure do
    url "http://index.bonsai.io"
   end
   BONSAI_INDEX_NAME = ENV['BONSAI_INDEX_URL'][/[^\/]+$/]
  else
    app_name = Rails.application.class.parent_name.underscore.dasherize
    app_env = Rails.env
    BONSAI_INDEX_NAME = "#{app_name}-#{app_env}"
  end