Rails SearchKick with matching on fields word_start and exact

Question

I have a model that I would like to search on with a mix of word_start and exact matches across fields.

For example:

If we have records in database with full_name and email columns:

Full Name, Email
1 Andrew Smith, [email protected]
2 Alex Smith, [email protected]

Expected Cases:

'andrew' - [1]
'a' - [1,2]
'anna@gmail' - [2]
'anna' - []

Another words, would like to word_start on full_name, but exact on email.

I have this so far, but get the following error.

employee.rb

searchkick callbacks: word_start: [:full_name]

def search_data
    {
        id: self.id,
        full_name: self.full_name,
        email: self.email
    }
end

controller

@results = Employee.search(
            @query,
            fields: [{"full_name" => :word_start}, {"email" => :exact}],
            misspellings: false
        )

Error

"Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot search on field [email] since it is not indexed.",

Answer 1

Try to reindex Employee model and then give a try - Employee.reindex

Answer 2

You have to run rake searchkick:reindex:all to index your actual data. Everytime you change anything searchkick related on your model you may want to run that to get the latest indices.