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Elasticsearch DSL

The elasticsearch-dsl gem provides a Ruby API for the Elasticsearch Query DSL. The library allows to programmatically build complex search definitions for Elasticsearch in Ruby, which are translated to Hashes, and ultimately, JSON, the language of Elasticsearch.

See the README for more information.

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