Ruby on Rails

I think Ariel's reply is spot-on.  Rails is basically DB agnostic, however I think the trend is that PostgreSQL is the more favored backend (except for stuff like Wordpress).  We're doing a lot more SQL procedural stuff these days with our rails apps (e.g. kicking out JSON from a single query can be literally 1,000x times faster in cases vs. asking Rails to query a model and format the same thing).  I find PostgreSQL a lot easier to admin as well, but to each their own.

Good luck!

Phil

On Mar 14, 2020, at 7:37 AM, Ariel Juodziukynas <arieljuod@gmail.com> wrote:

Usually ActiveRecord takes care of most of the differences, and postresql has a lot of similarities with mysql. I guess it would be a different call if you ask about learning a completely different db engine like mongo or graphql, but learning postgresql shouldn't take too much time knowing MySQL, at least to be proficient. I even have a project that I used sqlite to prototype and postresql when deploying it to heroku for tests and I had to do nothing to make it work on both databases thanks to AR.

Also, heroku prefers postrgres for example and heroku is really popular for rails hosting.

El sáb., 14 mar. 2020 a las 10:58, Rob Jonson (<rob.jonson@gmail.com>) escribió:

Hi Folks,

I have been using Mysql for forever, and broadly it works fine for me, with two complaints
1) occasional issues with mismatches in encoding/collation on strings

2) hours lost on every mac upgrade trying to get mysql working properly again

I know that people are generally favouring postgresql these days, I'm wondering if anyone can comment on whether it's worth putting in the effort to learn a new db?

all the best

Rob

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