Ruby on Rails

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 4:24 AM, Ben Edwards <login@funkytwig.com> wrote:

> Mine is! Maybe I should call it something else but in my 25 years in IT
> i've worked on several projects that use data in a database to transform
> data and transformation change (i.e. data warehouse load scripts).

I can't even parse what that sentence means, so...

>> A "staging" server is for realistic testing of your *procedures* that will
>> run on production, not doing data transformation to export.
>
> Again, maybe we need to call the server something else. Also it is testing
> (or the transformations).

Using commonly agreed-on definitions of things is generally a
Good Idea, especially given that Rails is a convention-oriented
framework.

> Anyway worked it out. I simply reaload the reference tables. The trick is
> to keep all the keys the same and use deferred foreign keys.

Sounds operationally brittle, but I'm sure your customers will let
you know when that stops working :-)

> Rules are there to be broken;).

"Good decisions are based on experience; experience is based
on bad decisions."

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