PlanetScale Ruby Client

⚠️ This Gem is not currently maintained. If you're looking to connect to PlanetScale with a Rails application, follow our Rails guide which uses Connection strings. ⚠️

This Gem provides an easy to use client for connecting your Ruby application to PlanetScale. It handles setting up a local proxy that allows you to connect to any PlanetScale database and branch without reconfiguration, so that you can easily swap and choose using only environment variables.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'planetscale'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install planetscale

This Gem exposes one class, and a singleton of that for configuring a 'global' instance of the proxy. This is recommended for most users who do not need to connect to multiple databases simultaneously. There are many ways to configure the connection, for local development we recommend:

The Gem will pick up configuration created by the CLI, to point it to your database run this in the root of your Rails project:

~> pscale branch switch main --database <db_name>
Finding branch main on database <db_name>
Successfully switched to branch main on database <db_name>

Now, run the built-in generator to setup the basic configuration: rails generate planetscale:install

Finally, point your database.yml at the proxy the Gem will start, which will listen on 127.0.0.1:3305. This will look something like:

development:
  <<: *default
  username: root
  host: 127.0.0.1
  port: 3305
  database: <db_name>

Now, your Rails app will boot the proxy as the app is starting, and connect to the main branch on your DB.

To use this Gem in 'production', we'll start by creating a PlanetScale Service Token that can connect to your database. To do this, grab the pscale CLI and do:

~> pscale org switch <org_name>

~> pscale service-token create
  NAME           TOKEN
  -------------- ------------------------------------------
  0sph6kvz5bxi   <redacted>

~> pscale service-token add-access 0sph6kvz5bxi connect_production_branch --database <db_name>
  DATABASE   ACCESSES
 ---------- ---------------------------
  testdb     connect_production_branch

To configure your application in production, you'll need to feed it all of the right information via environment variables:

PLANETSCALE_ORG=<org_name>
PLANETSCALE_DB=<db_name>
PLANETSCALE_DB_BRANCH=main
PLANETSCALE_TOKEN_NAME=0sph6kvz5bxi
PLANETSCALE_TOKEN=<redacted>

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. 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.

This gem is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.