db_facet

By Bettercall.io.

db_facet recursively fetches records from a database and generates a tree structure representing the records and its relations. This structure can be stored and read by DbSpiderWeaver to insert the data into the database again.

It`s designed for fast database writes (relying on raw SQL bulk INSERT`s with activerecord-import) and supports rails globalize.

Common usages would be to export and import an account, or build a fresh account by cloning an existing one.

db_facet is written to work on RubyOnRails, but can be used in any system just by writing the activerecord models and its relations representing your database.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'db_facet'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install db_facet

Here is a sample class using db_facet.
It clones an user account with all its dependencies to a fresh new account.

# Usage:
# new_attrs = {name: 'Demo account', email: 'demo@example.com'}
# new_account = CloneAccount.new(template_user.id, new_attrs).build

class CloneAccount

  INCLUDE_TEMPLATE_MODELS = %w(
    User
    Album
    Photo
    Video
    Invoice    
  )
  
  def initialize template_user_id, new_attrs
    @template_user_id = template_user_id
    @new_attrs = new_attrs.deep_dup
  end
  
  def build 
    seed = fetch_seed @template_user_id

    override_seed! seed, template_overrides(User.new)
    new_user_id = save! seed

    User.find new_user_id
  end

  private

  def template_overrides user
    @new_attrs.delete "password"
    @new_attrs.delete "session_token"
   
    @new_attrs.merge!(
      profile_theme: 34
    )

    # children overrides
    @new_attrs.merge!(
      lang_config: {locale: 'fr'},
      invoices: lambda {|data| data[:cc_end] = nil }
    )
    
    @new_attrs
  end

  # db_facet interface

  def fetch_seed template_user_id
    Rails.cache.fetch "account-seed-#{template_user_id}" do
      DbSpider.new(User.find(template_user_id), INCLUDE_MODELS).spide
    end
  end

  def override_seed! seed, overrides
    DbSpiderRootMerger.new(seed).merge! overrides
  end

  def save! seed
    DbSpiderWeaver.new(seed, timer: true).weave!
  end
end

{
  class_name:  'User',
  data: {name: 'Chuck Norris!'},
  reflections: {
    albuns: [
      {
        class_name:  'Albuns',
        data: {name: 'Day off 2017/02'},
        reflections: {
          photos: ...

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/tomlobato/db_facet.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.