Data Migration Strategies For Ruby On Rails Developers
Data migrations in Rails can be challenging, but solutions like inline model stubs, pure SQL, Rake tasks, and gems like `data-migrate` can help ensure smooth execution and testing.
Data migration is a common part of working with databases, and Ruby on Rails developers have many tools at their disposal. Still, it can be a challenge to get it right in every situation. Here are some tips for making sure your migrations go smoothly. The easiest way is just to have data migrations alongside with schema migrations. But as your code base grows this might become a problem. Problems Code coupling Data migrations depend on the existing code(models, service objects, etc.) over time code changes potentially breaking the migrations. Let's say you have a Order model and want...