Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Ember.js a client side only framework?

So unless you are planning to use this on an internal dashboard or something, what stops anyone from dropping your index if you expose 9200 to the public with ES? Or am I missing something?

That's legitimate concern -- you can of course put an Nginx proxy in front of elasticsearch to deny DELETE requests (see eg. http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/2012/03/21/deploying-...)

But wait for an article at the http://elasticsearch.org blog with an example of a more sophisticated, Ruby-based proxy.)

Check out the example application as well: https://github.com/karmi/ember-data-elasticsearch/tree/maste...