1. Place elastic in bin/elastic and chmod +x 2. Place boot.elastic.rb in config/boot.elastic.rb 3. Place .rubberband in config/.rubberband To run > bin/elastic @rubberband.search("body:goat")

.rubberband

servers: 
  - host: localhost
    port: 9500

boot.elastic.rb

APP_PATH ||= File.expand_path('../..', __FILE__)
RACK_ENV ||= ENV['RACK_ENV'] || ENV["NODE_ENV"] || 'development'

# Set up gems listed in the Gemfile.
gemfile = File.expand_path('../../Gemfile', __FILE__)
begin
  ENV['BUNDLE_GEMFILE'] = gemfile
  require 'bundler'
  Bundler.setup
  Bundler.require(:default, :elastic_search)

  begin
    config = YAML.load_file( File.join(APP_PATH, 'config', '.rubberband' ))
  rescue Errno::ENOENT => e
    STDERR.puts "No yaml file found a config/.rubberband".color :red
    exit!
  end

  connection_strings = config['servers'].collect{ |b| "#{b['host']}:#{b['port']}" }

  puts "elasticsearch".color :green
  puts connection_strings.join.color :white
  puts "\n"

  @rubberband = ElasticSearch.new(connection_strings, :transport => ElasticSearch::Transport::Thrift)
  

rescue Bundler::GemNotFound => e
  STDERR.puts e.message
  STDERR.puts "Try running `bundle install`."
  exit!
end if File.exist?(gemfile)

elastic

irb -r./config/boot.elastic