On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:40:04AM -0700, deitch wrote:
> When I launch my app in test or dev, it runs a database initializer,
> based on config file, that cleans out the db entirely, loads the
> properties, loads the seed data. Works fine.
> 
> Looking for a pattern for similar in production.
> 
> a) Is there anything like "rake db:migrate" from Rails for node?
> b) What patterns are people using? I am tempted to have the db
> initialize split into two functions: initialize(), which runs
> automatically in dev/test, which always cleans out and resets the db,
> and validate(), which runs automatically in beta/prod and ensures that
> the database properties are up to speed with the current version of
> the properties description file but does not clean it out.
> 
> e.g. new view "abc" wasn't in the last release, so I build it into my
> db properties/schema file. Now every test will create it for local
> test db. The moment I deploy (git using heroku, jitsu tools, manually,
> whatever), that view will *not* be in my managed database, and I am
> stuck. So validate() on launch ties properties to code version (good).
> But modifying database every time app starts seems risky.

Recently announced by someone:

https://github.com/mgutz/mygrate

I thought it had the right goals.

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Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy

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