Added section on consistency - closes #856

Andrew Kane
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 ## Elasticsearch Gotchas
  
+### Consistency
+
+Elasticsearch is eventually consistent, which means it can take up to a second for a change to reflect in search. You can use the `refresh` method to have it show up immediately.
+
+```ruby
+product.save!
+Product.search_index.refresh
+```
+
 ### Inconsistent Scores
  
 Due to the distributed nature of Elasticsearch, you can get incorrect results when the number of documents in the index is low. You can [read more about it here](https://www.elastic.co/blog/understanding-query-then-fetch-vs-dfs-query-then-fetch). To fix this, do:
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1771	1771	## Elasticsearch Gotchas
1772	1772
	1773	+### Consistency
	1774	+
	1775	+Elasticsearch is eventually consistent, which means it can take up to a second for a change to reflect in search. You can use the `refresh` method to have it show up immediately.
	1776	+
	1777	+```ruby
	1778	+product.save!
	1779	+Product.search_index.refresh
	1780	+```
	1781	+
1773	1782	### Inconsistent Scores
1774	1783
1775	1784	Due to the distributed nature of Elasticsearch, you can get incorrect results when the number of documents in the index is low. You can [read more about it here](https://www.elastic.co/blog/understanding-query-then-fetch-vs-dfs-query-then-fetch). To fix this, do:
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