SchemaPlus vs DatabaseValidations

SchemaPlus

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

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DatabaseValidations

Database validations for ActiveRecord (by toptal)

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SchemaPlus		DatabaseValidations
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-	Mentions	3
691	Stars	500
-	Growth	1.0%
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	10 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.

DatabaseValidations

Posts with mentions or reviews of DatabaseValidations. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-04.

Uniqueness validation does not work since the beginning of Ruby on Rails.
3 projects | dev.to | 4 Feb 2023

DatabaseValidations provides database-driven validations for ActiveRecord.
Ecto's uniqueness constraint vs. Rails' uniqueness validation
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 May 2022

Love this post, great exploration of the nuances of uniqueness validations.
I came here to mention that there is also the https://github.com/toptal/database_validations gem which allows you to handle uniqueness validations in Rails in a similar manner to Ecto.
Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
63 projects | dev.to | 6 Aug 2021

add database_validations

What are some alternatives?

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

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

DatabaseConsistency - The tool to avoid various issues due to inconsistencies and inefficiencies between a database schema and application models.

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.

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

Blazer - Business intelligence made simple

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

PgHero - A performance dashboard for Postgres

Scenic - Versioned database views for Rails

SecondBase - Seamless second database integration for Rails.

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