thanks folks, I guess I'm asking more about the practical pain points. - As you say, I trust rails to deal with most of the day-to-day.
do you end up battling to get your postgres install working after upgrading mac (or postgres?) do you have problems with string encoding incompatibilities in obscure email addresses? do you have a convenient gui for browsing (like SequelPro) are there other similar annoyances, or does it 'just work' whatever I use, I like to stick with the same db in dev & production, ( using mysql or sqlite for my tests and postgres on the server seems like it is asking for trouble) cheers, Rob On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 at 15:17, Phil Edelbrock <edel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think Ariel's reply is spot-on. Rails is basically DB agnostic, however > I think the trend is that PostgreSQL is the more favored backend (except > for stuff like Wordpress). We're doing a lot more SQL procedural stuff > these days with our rails apps (e.g. kicking out JSON from a single query > can be literally 1,000x times faster in cases vs. asking Rails to query a > model and format the same thing). I find PostgreSQL a lot easier to admin > as well, but to each their own. > > Good luck! > > > Phil > > > On Mar 14, 2020, at 7:37 AM, Ariel Juodziukynas <arielj...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Usually ActiveRecord takes care of most of the differences, and > postresql has a lot of similarities with mysql. I guess it would be a > different call if you ask about learning a completely different db engine > like mongo or graphql, but learning postgresql shouldn't take too much time > knowing MySQL, at least to be proficient. I even have a project that I used > sqlite to prototype and postresql when deploying it to heroku for tests and > I had to do nothing to make it work on both databases thanks to AR. > > Also, heroku prefers postrgres for example and heroku is really popular > for rails hosting. > > El sáb., 14 mar. 2020 a las 10:58, Rob Jonson (<rob.jon...@gmail.com>) > escribió: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> I have been using Mysql for forever, and broadly it works fine for me, >> with two complaints >> 1) occasional issues with mismatches in encoding/collation on strings >> 2) hours lost on every mac upgrade trying to get mysql working properly >> again >> >> I know that people are generally favouring postgresql these days, I'm >> wondering if anyone can comment on whether it's worth putting in the effort >> to learn a new db? >> >> all the best >> >> Rob >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/495925de-561d-4561-bb70-dfe9549219a8%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/495925de-561d-4561-bb70-dfe9549219a8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAPS3bcBqX0Y3R_63yfarpdV%2B0qesh3VGzeTzP2bV0inbGMxoOQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAPS3bcBqX0Y3R_63yfarpdV%2B0qesh3VGzeTzP2bV0inbGMxoOQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rubyonrails-talk/HjmTuU1QoNM/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/BE54840B-0F95-4AB6-831B-90A3205AD2A6%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/BE54840B-0F95-4AB6-831B-90A3205AD2A6%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Hobbyist Software is a trading name of Hobbyist Software Limited. Registered office 12 Fraley Rd, Bristol, BS93BS. Registered in England. Company no:7876492 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CACTOy%2BrggoJWMrmsUZiFFst5wNpKvEM7eRtzjfBxKwXtJEqvOA%40mail.gmail.com.
