FeatureDbRails

When you are working on the big projects with the teammates, could be the situation when you develop separate big features that might include DB changes, of course. Sometimes you need to switch to the another feature to help you team or whatever. But on local machine you made some critical changes into your development DB and without the logic which is in the another branch the application does not work correctly.

This gem provides the very simple ability to create DB-per-feature. The main goals are:

Easy create and revert feature DBs
Do not lost data from the original development DB, so you can develop your feature having the whole data.

This is very dirty implementation of the concept, which I copied from the developing application.

Requirements

git
mysql (unfortunately only mysql is supported now)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'feature_db_rails', '0.1.0'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install feature_db_rails

Usage

Usage is very simple.

For first you need to make change in the database.yml file:

development:
  <<: *default
  database: your_development_db<%= FeatureDbRails.db_suffix %>

And then you can do a magic:

When you want to create DB for your feature run bundle exec rake feature_db_rails:generate
If you want to revert DB run bundle exec rake feature_db_rails:revert

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/alterego-labs/feature_db_rails. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License