Scenic
Versioned database views for Rails (by scenic-views)
PgHero
A performance dashboard for Postgres (by ankane)
| Scenic | PgHero | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 16 | |
| 3,532 | 8,444 | |
| 1.0% | 0.7% | |
| 5.8 | 7.9 | |
| 3 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Scenic
Posts with mentions or reviews of Scenic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-23.
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Query multiple tables easily with Rails and Postgres Views
1) First, let's install the Scenic gem. It's not required, but it gives us nice ways to create and manage views.
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How to avoid N+1 query using SQL views (materialized) in Rails application
*Scenic* gem
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Database Views & Rails Active Record: defining new Model classes out of views
To model our Deliverable class, we will need a view. We will use the popular scenic gem, which provides some useful generators for creating views with their respective migrations, and utilities to handle views versioning.
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Materialised views for serious performance gains
+1 for scenic - https://github.com/scenic-views/scenic
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Most performant way to build an analytics dashboard from a relational database backend that only stores numeric values, where the data the end-user sees is "categorized" into numeric brackets (e.g. 60-79 = Med, 80-100 = High, etc)
If the data doesn't need to be close to real-time, and if your DB can handle a bit of load, I'd use a "batch" approach. To do this, I'd create a materialized view in your relational DB that you'd then refresh periodically. The easiest way to do this is with the `scenic` gem. Once you've done this, you can simply create a new model and set the `table_name` to the name of the materialized view, and then treat it as a regular model.
- Utilizando views SQL no Ruby on Rails
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Frameworks for SQL Development in Rails?
I use the scenic gem to manage views which uses raw sql files: https://github.com/scenic-views/scenic
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Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
add scenic
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Logidze 1.0, postgres-specific alternative to eg paper_trail for recording ActiveRecord change history
TIL about fx gem for storing triggers in schema.rb. That makes me so happy because scenic gem for creating database views is one of my favorites. Postgres is very powerful and it's great to see tools for exposing that through Rails.
PgHero
Posts with mentions or reviews of PgHero.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-11.
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Deep Dive: Boosting Rails Performance with EXPLAIN ANALYZE in PostgreSQL
Use PgHero or Rails Mini Profiler for real-time SQL analysis
- PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance
- PgHero: A Performance Dashboard for Postgres
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How to Get the Most Out of Postgres Memory Settings
For our production PGSQL databases, we use a combination of PGTuner[0] to help estimate RAM requirements and PGHero[1] to get a live view of the running DB. Furthermore, we use ZFS with the built-in compression to save disk space. Together, these three utilities help keep our DBs running very well.
[0] https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua
[1] https://github.com/ankane/pghero
- PGHero: A Performance Dashboard for Postgres
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Show HN: PostgreSQL Index Advisor
I am using https://github.com/ankane/pghero/ and this is one of its features with GUI
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What are your favourite approaches to keeping on top of Postgres health?
I use either PgHero or Rails PG Extras on every project
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Slow query. Should add indexes?
There are tools available which can look at your Postgres logs and tell you if you need to add indexes, I've used https://github.com/ankane/pghero before and it seems decent.
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Is there something like sentry.io, for checking how long rails queries and functions take to execute?
https://github.com/ankane/pghero (open source equivalent to pganalyze)
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railstart-niceadmin support more features
- [pghero](https://github.com/ankane/pghero)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Scenic and PgHero you can also consider the following projects:
Lol DBA - lol_dba is a small package of rake tasks that scan your application models and displays a list of columns that probably should be indexed. Also, it can generate .sql migration scripts.
Blazer - Business intelligence made simple
SchemaPlus - SchemaPlus provides a collection of enhancements and extensions to ActiveRecord
Database Cleaner - Strategies for cleaning databases in Ruby. Can be used to ensure a clean state for testing.
Polo - Polo travels through your database and creates sample snapshots so you can work with real world data in development.