Proposal to use data_migrate gem for API
Hi all, I would like to propose that we use the data_migrate
gem to handle changes to db data. Here is a PR
I have opened where I need to update each notification's
event_payload from YAML to JSON serialisation. This
doesn't make sense to do in a normal migration because it has
nothing to do with database structure only the
content of the database. This gem allows us to handle such changes
in the same way we handle normal
migrations.
The alternative is to use rake tasks for data changes which is
what I initially did in the PR in this commit.
However the downsides of that are that we need to always update
the README's to let updaters know exactly
which rake tasks need to be run to update their db and it also
makes it easier to sync data changes with
other developers. All thats needed to get your database up to date
with the gem is to run `rake db:migrate:with_data`.
If you have any opinions please post on the PR to continue this
discussion.
Thanks
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