Rails Searchkick / Elasticsearch has_many and belongs_to associations

Question

Im trying to use Searchkick to run a search and return based on multiple models.

My book model contains this

class Book < ActiveRecord::Base

  sear         


        

Answer 1

In your Book model you need to have a search_data block for the indexing.

def search_data
  attributes.merge(
    author_name: author(&:name)
    publisher_name: publisher(&:name)
    subjects_name: subjects.map(&:name)
  )
end

this will add the associations to your index.

You use the .map method for the has_many associations.