How to test ElasticSearch in a Rails application (Rspec)

I was wondering how you were testing the search in your application when using ElasticSearch and Tire.

• How do you setup a new ElasticSearch test instance? Is there a way to mock it?

• Any gems you know of that might help with that?

Some stuff I found helpful:

I found a great article answering pretty much all my questions :)

http://bitsandbit.es/post/11295134047/unit-testing-with-tire-and-elastic-search#disqus_thread

Plus, there is an answer from Karmi, Tire author.

This is useful as well: https://github.com/karmi/tire/wiki/Integration-Testing-Rails-Models-with-Tire

I can't believe I did not find these before asking...