/motor_city

Example of Rust as your ORM in Ruby

Primary LanguageRubyMIT LicenseMIT

MotorCity

Project to demonstrate how to use the popular Rust ORM Diesel in Ruby.

Requirements

  • Ruby 2.7.5+ or 3.1.1+
  • Rust 1.60.0+ (nightly)
  • Postgres 11+

Getting Ready

  1. Ensure the Diesel CLI is setup:

    cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features postgres

  2. Modify or ensure credentials in .env has access to create a database

  3. Create database and structure:

    diesel database setup

  4. Install gem dependencies

    bundle install

  5. Make sure the gem builds and everything passes:

    bundle exec rake

Comparison to ActiveRecord

time ./bin/stress_test_motor > /dev/null

real    0m1.581s
user    0m1.168s
sys     0m2.307s

time ./bin/stress_test_activerecord > /dev/null

real    0m4.152s
user    0m3.004s
sys     0m1.797s

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