Using Meilisearch full-text search engine with Rails

Meilisearch is “An open source, blazingly fast and hyper relevant search-engine”. In this article, I’ll show you how to integrate it with Rails app.

Quickstart

Download and install process described here: https://docs.meilisearch.com/guides/advanced_guides/installation.html

There’s also a nice article about installing MeiliSearch in production and running it as a service: https://docs.meilisearch.com/running-production

Milisearch has a gem for Ruby apps, so first, you need to add to your Gemfile:

gem 'meilisearch', require: false

And run bundle install. Next, let’s create a file where we gonna keep our connection configuration. You don’t need a master key unless Meilisearch running in a production environment, so you can…