adds link to good beginners guide to ES: http://seanmcgary.com/posts/…

…beginners-guide-to-elasticsearch

README.md

@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-updat
 
 ## Background Reading
 
-- Elasticsearch (wiki): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch
+- Elasticsearch (wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch
+- Beginner's Guide to Elasticsearch: http://seanmcgary.com/posts/beginners-guide-to-elasticsearch
 - Faceted Search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search
 - Solr vs Elasticsearch: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10213009/solr-vs-elasticsearch
 - More detailed Solr vs ES: http://blog.sematext.com/2012/08/23/solr-vs-elasticsearch-part-1-overview

insert.js

@@ -1,41 +1,33 @@
-var querystring = require('querystring'); // to build our post string
 var http = require('http');
 
-function insert(id,tweet) {
-  // Build the post string from an object
-  var post_data = querystring.stringify({
-    "tweet" : tweet,
-    "text" :"my amazing tweet text"
-  });
+var data = JSON.stringify({
+  "text" :"everything is awesome"
+});
 
-  // An object of options to indicate where to post to
-  var post_options = {
-      host: 'localhost',
-      port: '9200',
-      path: '/twitter/tweets/'+id+'/',
-      method: 'POST',
-      headers: {
-          'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
-          'Content-Length': post_data.length
-      }
-  };
-  console.log(' - - - - ');
-  console.log(post_options);
-  console.log(' - - - - ');
-  console.log(post_data);
-  console.log(' - - - - ');
-  // Set up the request
-  var post_req = http.request(post_options, function(res) {
-      res.setEncoding('utf8');
-      res.on('data', function (chunk) {
-          console.log('Response: ' + chunk);
-      });
-  });
+// An object of options to indicate where to post to
+var post_options = {
+    host: 'localhost',
+    port: '9200',
+    path: '/twitter/tweets/1234',
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: {
+        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+        'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(data)
+    }
+};
 
-  // post the data
-  post_req.write(post_data);
-  post_req.end();
+// Set up the request
+var post_req = http.request(post_options, function(res) {
+    res.setEncoding('utf8');
+    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
+        console.log('Response: ' + chunk);
+    });
+});
 
-}
+console.log(data);
+console.log(' - - - - ');
+console.log(post_options);
 
-insert('1234', 'hello world');
+// post the data
+post_req.write( data );
+post_req.end();