SchemaPlus vs Database Cleaner

SchemaPlus

SchemaPlus provides a collection of enhancements and extensions to ActiveRecord (by SchemaPlus)

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Database Cleaner

Strategies for cleaning databases in Ruby. Can be used to ensure a clean state for testing. (by DatabaseCleaner)

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SchemaPlus		Database Cleaner
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-	Mentions	3
691	Stars	2,914
-	Growth	0.2%
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

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SchemaPlus

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Database Cleaner

Posts with mentions or reviews of Database Cleaner. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-21.

How a big application is usually tested regarding to its database data persistence? Also, tip on starting tests on existing codebase.
1 project | /r/rails | 30 Sep 2021

i'll introduce the gem https://github.com/DatabaseCleaner/database_cleaner.
Como configurar ambiente de testes em Ruby on Rails com RSpec
7 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2021
10 Signs of a good Ruby on Rails Developer
10 projects | dev.to | 15 Apr 2021

If your are using gems like faker , factory_bot_rails and database_cleaner to create and clean test records then creating unnecessary records can cost you time and speed.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SchemaPlus and Database Cleaner you can also consider the following projects:

Seed Fu - Advanced seed data handling for Rails, combining the best practices of several methods together.

PgHero - A performance dashboard for Postgres

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.

Seed dump - Rails 4/5 task to dump your data to db/seeds.rb

Blazer - Business intelligence made simple

Squasher - Squasher - squash your old migrations in a single command

Scenic - Versioned database views for Rails

SecondBase - Seamless second database integration for Rails.

Upsert - Upsert on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3. Transparently creates functions (UDF) for MySQL and PostgreSQL; on SQLite3, uses INSERT OR IGNORE.

BatchLoader - :zap: Powerful tool for avoiding N+1 DB or HTTP queries