RailsDatabaseAwait

This gem was created to solve the problem when you might have to wait until the database is ready before continuing. For example when running migrations in a kubernetes job while using Google Cloud SQL Auth Proxy as a sidecar.

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

$ bundle add rails_database_await

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

$ gem install rails_database_await

bundle exec rails db:await

Configure the number of times we should be trying to connect to the database by setting the DATABASE_AWAIT_MAX_TRIES (Defaults to 30). Configure the number of seconds to wait between each time we try to connect to the database by setting the DATABASE_AWAIT_WAIT_TIME (Defaults to 1).

For example; To wait for the database to be ready before running migrations we can just do:

bundle exec rails db:await db:migrate

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 the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

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

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