On Mar 16, 2014, at 9:30 AM, Brent Payne <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am inheriting a project where there are two ruby on rails implementations > of the same project. The old running version and the new feature complete > version. Both versions were written by different groups of people. The > money wants to get the website off of the first version and onto the second > version of code. The first version is running on a Mongo database and the > second version on postgres. This was a conscious decision. Now I'm a RnR > n00b and the money is really a friend who is paying me in good will and > friendship. To me, this sounds like a hairy situation and a a good puzzler. > What I want to know is how would a RnR ninja handle this? Migrations? Our esteemed and foreign-roaming semi-former leader, Patrick, wrote the trucker gem for this sort of situation: https://github.com/mokolabs/trucker It's simple but effective. This doesn't mean you won't have problems -- I've never encountered a data migration task that didn't make me want to give up programming entirely -- but there's a good chance Trucker will be helpful. Regards, Guyren G Howe Relevant Logic LLC guyren-at-relevantlogic.com ~ http://relevantlogic.com ~ +1 512 784 3178 Ruby/Rails, Xojo, PHP programming PostgreSQL, MySQL database design and consulting Technical writing and training Read my book, Real OOP with REALbasic: <http://relevantlogic.com/oop-book/about-the-oop-book.php> -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
