ES_Stemming.rb

# Script to test stemming for ElasticSearch.  Working now!!
# Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4981001/why-elasticsearch-is-not-finding-my-term

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'
require 'yaml'
require 'json'
# kill the index
delete = Net::HTTP::Delete.new("/willindex")

# create again
create_index = Net::HTTP::Post.new("/willindex")
create_index.body = {
	"index"=> 
	{ "number_of_shards"=> 1,
		"analysis"=> {
			"filter"=> {
				"snowball"=> {
					"type"=> "snowball",
					"language"=> "English"
				}
			},
			"analyzer"=> { 
				"a_stemming"=> {
					"type"=>"custom",
					"tokenizer"=> "standard",
					"filter"=> ["lowercase", "snowball"]
				}
			}
		}
	}
}.to_yaml

puts create_index.body