Elasticsearch, tire and autocomplete
Here's what I did using analyzers for doing a search on names of businesses when I used ElasticSearch. Place this inside your mapping block and modify the index appropriately -- I think this will give you what you want:
indexes :name, :type => 'multi_field', :fields => { :name => { :type => 'string', :analyzer => 'standard' }, :"name.exact" => { :type => 'string', :index => :not_analyzed }}Then inside your search and query blocks, something like:
search do query do # either a must match for exact match boolean(:minimum_number_should_match => 1) do must { string "name:#{<variable>}" } end # or a broader match string "name:#{<variable>}*" endend