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.

Answer 2

Typically after hours of struggling I found the answer minutes after posting the question...

As per https://github.com/ankane/searchkick/issues/382 I added an initializer with:

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

which seems to have solved the problem. I'll report back if it recurs.

Answer 3

For me, the problem was with the missing port in the URL. ( I am using AWS elasticsearch and not running it on localhost. )

I changed

ENV['ELASTICSEARCH_URL'] = Rails.application.credentials.dig(:elasticsearch, :url)

to

ENV['ELASTICSEARCH_URL'] = Rails.application.credentials.dig(:elasticsearch, :url) + ':443'

This does not affect all my projects, so I am guessing this has to do with a newer release.