Migrations
Database Migrations with micrate
If you're using Granite to query your data, you likely want to manage your database schema as well. Migrations are a great way to do that, so let's take a look at micrate, a project to manage migrations. We'll use it as a dependency instead of a pre-build binary.
Install
Add micrate your shards.yml
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dependencies:
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micrate:
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github: juanedi/micrate
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Update shards
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$ shards update
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Create an executable to run the
Micrate::Cli. For this example, we'll create bin/micrate in the root of our project where we're using Granite ORM. This assumes you're exporting the DATABASE_URL for your project and an environment variable instead of using a database.yml.1
#! /usr/bin/env crystal
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#
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# To build a standalone command line client, require the
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# driver you wish to use and use `Micrate::Cli`.
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#
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require "micrate"
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require "pg"
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Micrate::DB.connection_url = ENV["DATABASE_URL"]
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Micrate::Cli.run
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Make it executable:
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$ chmod +x bin/micrate
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We should now be able to run micrate commands.
$ bin/micrate help => should output help commands.Creating a migration
Let's create a
posts table in our database.1
$ bin/micrate scaffold create_posts
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This will create a file under
db/migrations. Let's open it and define our posts schema.1
-- +micrate Up
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-- SQL in section 'Up' is executed when this migration is applied
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CREATE TABLE posts(
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id BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
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title VARCHAR NOT NULL,
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body TEXT NOT NULL,
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created_at TIMESTAMP,
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updated_at TIMESTAMP
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);
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-- +micrate Down
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-- SQL section 'Down' is executed when this migration is rolled back
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DROP TABLE posts;
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And now let's run the migration
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$ bin/micrate up
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You should now have a
posts table in your database ready to query.Last modified 9mo ago
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