PostgresApp VS arkade

A running Rails application needs a database to connect to. You may already have your database of choice installed, but if not, I recommend PostgreSQL, or Postgres for short. On a Mac, probably the easiest way to install it is with Posrgres.app. Another option, the one I prefer, is to use Homebrew. With Homebrew installed, this command will install PostgreSQL version 16 along with libpq:

I was using Postgres.app, but of course, you can download it in any way as long as it works.

There are two ways to connect with the Postgres database which can be in the terminal or using a Postgres GUI client app like DBeaver. But first, download the PostgreSQL installer for macOS or Windows, depending on your OS. The setup and installation come with the psql command, a tool shipped with Postgres that allows you to communicate with Postgres through the command line.

6a. Even stricter option is an "append-only" aka "timeseries" schema, which I highly recommend. Can't remember the last time I didn't use one.

7. If you happen to be testing on a Mac, https://postgresapp.com/ is easier than the MacPorts or Homebrew packages.

And if you're on a Mac, Postgres.app makes it even easier: https://postgresapp.com/

A great app for managing PostgreSQL databases is Postgres.app.

If you omit sudo, then you can move the binary yourself.

And of course, there's nothing stopping you visiting the releases page - or installing my tap and getting it from Brew!

https://github.com/alexellis/arkade/releases

I strongly discourage actually using such a tool in a professional setting for a host of reasons but that is exactly what https://github.com/alexellis/arkade appears to be going for.

https://docs.oracle.com/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/ https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/ https://github.com/alexellis/arkade https://cert-manager.io/docs/tutorials/acme/nginx-ingress/ https://docs.openfaas.com/deployment/kubernetes/ https://docs.openfaas.com/cli/install/

If you've not yet heard of or used arkade - check it out on GitHub https://github.com/alexellis/arkade/

For the CNCF landscape of tooling there's Arkade, which would at least cover you on the k9s front. [1]

[1] https://github.com/alexellis/arkade

I built a feature in arkade [1] to pull in binaries for CLIs for infrastructure and developer tooling that I wanted to use - it now has 72 CLIs that you can pull down with a single command and most importantly, as near to instantly as you're going to get.

For instance: arkade get [email protected] yq helm faas-cli

It's not got anywhere near the catalog of brew, and doesn't compile software, or help you find lib-xyz for your Yubikey, but it is really fast and has a growing community behind it.

It works on MacOS, Linux, Windows and arm hosts to determine the correct download URL and pull in a binary.

[1] https://github.com/alexellis/arkade

Contributions are welcome.