README.md
## RubberBand is deprecated and will not be maintained. Consider the official ElasticSearch Ruby client at https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-ruby.
## RubberBand
[](http://travis-ci.org/grantr/rubberband) [](https://codeclimate.com/github/grantr/rubberband)
An ElasticSearch client with ThriftClient-like failover handling.
## License
Copyright 2010-2012 Grant Rodgers. See included LICENSE file.
## Features
* Automatic failover, retry, and peer discovery
* Support for multiple transports (HTTP, Thrift, Memcached)
* Support for multiple encodings (JSON, Smile TODO)
Rubberband uses MultiJson for JSON encoding and decoding and supports all JSON backends that MultiJson supports.
The HTTP transport uses Faraday, which also supports a number of http backends. Choose the one that works best for you.
## Supported Rubies
Tested on 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, and Rubinius in 1.8 and 1.9 mode. Ruby 1.8.6 is NOT supported due to missing String#bytesize.
## Usage
Instantiate a client:
client = ElasticSearch.new('http://127.0.0.1:9200', :index => "twitter", :type => "tweet")
Instantiate a client with multiple servers:
client = ElasticSearch.new(['127.0.0.1:9200', '127.0.0.1:9201'])
Instantiate a client using a Heroku URL (this sets the default index):
client = ElasticSearch.new(ENV['ELASTICSEARCH_URL'])
Connect using the thrift transport (requires the thrift gem and elasticsearch thrift plugin to be installed):
client = ElasticSearch.new('127.0.0.1:9500', :transport => ElasticSearch::Transport::Thrift)
Pass a block to Faraday to configure middleware and options:
```ruby
client = ElasticSearch::Client.new('127.0.0.1:9200') do |conn|
conn.response :logger
conn.adapter Faraday.default_adapter
end
```
API:
```ruby
client.default_index = "test_index"
client.default_type = "test_type"
client.index({:body => "elasticsearch is cool"}, :id => 1)
client.get("1")
client.search("body:elasticsearch")
```
## TODO
See TODO file.
## Contributing
http://github.com/grantr/rubberband
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