How do I set the default analyzer for elastic search with tire?

Question

I have been experimenting with elasticsearch lately with ruby on rails. I am having trouble getting my data indexed so I can search for items with both plural, and non-plur

Answer 1

It's easiest to set this in the elasticsearch.yml settings file:

index.number_of_shards: 2
index.number_of_replicas: 0
index.analysis.analyzer.default.type: snowball