Let me give you a short answer. An analyzer is used at index Time and at search Time. It’s used to create an index of terms. To index a phrase, it could be useful to break it in words. Here comes the analyzer. It applies tokenizers and token filters. A tokenizer could be a Whitespace … Read more
Prefixing your index-names for the current environment You could set a different index-name for each environment (in your case: the test environment). For example, you could create an initializer in config/initializers/tire.rb with the following line: Tire::Model::Search.index_prefix “#{Rails.application.class.parent_name.downcase}_#{Rails.env.to_s.downcase}” A conceivable approach for deleting the indexes Assuming that you have models named Customer, Order and Product, put … Read more