Trouble highlighting in elasticsearch using rails - ruby-on-rails

Question

After reading several sites (including elasticsearch's documentation) and experimenting around a lot, I'm having trouble getting highlights. I can do the basic keyword search, but it's clear I'm not grasping something. Here's my code.
Gems:
gem 'elasticsearch-model'
gem 'elasticsearch-rails'
Controller:
class TermsController < ApplicationController
def search
#terms = Term.search(params[:query]).results
end
end
Model:
require 'elasticsearch/model'
class Term < ActiveRecord::Base
include Elasticsearch::Model
include Elasticsearch::Model::Callbacks
settings index: { number_of_shards: 1, number_of_replicas: 0 } do
mappings dynamic: 'false' do
indexes :id, index: :not_analyzed
indexes :name, analyzer: 'spanish'
indexes :gender, index: :not_analyzed
indexes :part_of_speech, index: :not_analyzed
indexes :definition
indexes :etymology1
indexes :etymology2
indexes :uses
indexes :romance_cognates
indexes :notes1
indexes :notes2
indexes :quote1, analyzer: 'spanish'
indexes :quote2, analyzer: 'spanish'
end
end
def as_indexed_json(options = {})
as_json(
only: [:name, :gender, :part_of_speech, :definition, :etymology1, :etymology2, :uses, :romance_cognates, :notes1, :notes2, :quote1, :quote2]
)
end
def self.search(query)
__elasticsearch__.search(
{
query: {
multi_match: {
query: query,
fields: ['name', 'definition', 'etymology1', 'etymology2', 'uses', 'romance_cognates', 'notes1', 'notes2', 'quote1', 'quote2']
}
},
highlight: {
tags_schema: 'styled',
fields: {
:'*' => {}
}
}
}
)
end
end
# Delete the previous terms index in Elasticsearch
Term.__elasticsearch__.client.indices.delete index: Term.index_name rescue nil
# Create the new index with the new mapping
Term.__elasticsearch__.client.indices.create \
index: Term.index_name,
body: { settings: Term.settings.to_hash, mappings: Term.mappings.to_hash }
# Index all term records from the db to Elasticsearch
Term.import(force: true)
I also tried:
{
query: {
multi_match: {
query: query,
fields: ['name', 'definition', 'etymology1', 'etymology2', 'uses', 'romance_cognates', 'notes1', 'notes2', 'quote1', 'quote2']
}
},
highlight: {
fields: {
content: {'force_source': true}
}
}
}
and
{
query: {
multi_match: {
query: query,
fields: ['name', 'definition', 'etymology1', 'etymology2', 'uses', 'romance_cognates', 'notes1^5', 'notes2', 'quote1', 'quote2']
}
},
highlight: {
fields: {
content: {type: 'plain'}
}
}
}
and
{
query: {
multi_match: {
query: query,
fields: ['name', 'definition', 'etymology1', 'etymology2', 'uses', 'romance_cognates', 'notes1^5', 'notes2', 'quote1', 'quote2']
}
},
highlight: {
pre_tags: ['<tag1>']
post_tags: ['</tag1>']
fields: {
_all: {}
}
}
}
...Along with many other attempts I can't remember

Answer 1

It appears the key that I was missing as illustrated here is that I needed the try() method in my view template. I'm sure there's a more concise way of writing this, but a sample of my view syntax looks like this:
<%= term.try(:highlight).try(:definition) ? term.highlight.definition[0].html_safe : term.definition.html_safe %>
<%= term.try(:highlight).try(:etymology1) ? term.highlight.etymology1[0].html_safe : term.etymology1.html_safe %>