Searchkick with ElasticSearch returns “Faraday::ConnectionFailed: execution expired”

Question

I\'ve been using the searchkick gem with elasticsearch with no problems on a Rails 4.2.0 application. I have a single Video model using searchkick.

For some reason

Answer 1

Add below lines of code in config/initializers/elasticsearch.rb

Searchkick.client = Elasticsearch::Client.new(hosts: ["localhost:9200"], retry_on_failure: true, transport_options: {request: {timeout: 250}})

You can specify this according to Rails environment.