sqlpkg-ruby

sqlpkg is the (unofficial) SQLite package registry. This gem provides a Ruby interface to its CLI.

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

bundle add sqlpkg

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

gem install sqlpkg

After installing the gem, run the installer:

rails generate sqlpkg:install

The installer does three things:

1. creates an empty .sqlpkg/ directory, which ensures that sqlpkg will run in "project scope" and not "global scope" (see the sqlpkg-cli README for more information)
2. creates an empty sqlpkg.lock file, which sqlpkg will use to store information about the installed packages (see the sqlpkg-cli README for more information)
3. creates an initializer file at config/initializers/sqlpkg.rb which will patch the SQLite3Adapter to automatically load the extensions installed in the .sqlpkg/ directory whenever the database is opened

Once properly integrated into your Rails application, you can install any extension listed on the sqlpkg registry by executing:

bundle exec sqlpkg install PACKAGE_IDENTIFIER

When exploring the the sqlpkg registry, the PACKAGE_IDENTIFIER needed to install an extension is the title found in the cards, always in owner/name format.

This gem wraps the standalone executable version of the sqlpkg-cli. These executables are platform specific, so there are actually separate underlying gems per platform, but the correct gem will automatically be picked for your platform.

Supported platforms are:

• arm64-darwin (macos-arm64)
• x86_64-darwin (macos-x64)
• arm64-linux (linux-arm64)
• x86_64-linux (linux-x64)

If you are not able to use the vendored standalone executables (for example, if you're on an unsupported platform), you can use a local installation of the sqlpkg executable by setting an environment variable named SQLPKG_INSTALL_DIR to the directory containing the executable.

For example, if you've installed sqlpkg so that the executable is found at /usr/local/bin/sqlpkg, then you should set your environment variable like so:

SQLPKG_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/bin

This also works with relative paths. If you've installed into your app's directory at ./.bin/sqlpkg:

SQLPKG_INSTALL_DIR=.bin

bundle exec sqlpkg help
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ sqlpkg is an SQLite package manager.           │
│ Use it to install or update SQLite extensions. │
│                                                │
│ Commands:                                      │
│ help       Display help                        │
│ info       Display package information         │
│ init       Init project scope                  │
│ install    Install packages                    │
│ list       List installed packages             │
│ uninstall  Uninstall package                   │
│ update     Update installed packages           │
│ version    Display version                     │
│ which      Display path to extension file      │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

You can get the path to an installed extension using the Sqlpkg.path_for method, e.g.:

Sqlpkg.path_for("nalgeon/uuid")
# => "./.sqlpkg/nalgeon/uuid/uuid.dylib"

You can also use the shorter .[] alias:

Sqlpkg["nalgeon/uuid"]
# => "./.sqlpkg/nalgeon/uuid/uuid.dylib"

If you try to access an extension that hasn't been installed, a Sqlpkg::ExtensionNotInstalledError will be raised:

Sqlpkg["nalgeon/ulid"]
# raises Sqlpkg::ExtensionNotInstalledError

This feature is particulary useful for the new Rails feature and sqlite3-ruby feature that allows automatically loading extensions via the extensions keyword defined in the Rails config/database.yml or the SQLite3::Database.new method call. You can now use either:

development:
  adapter: sqlite3
  extensions:
    - <%= Sqlpkg.path_for("asg017/ulid") %>

or if you are using SQLite3::Database directly:

db = SQLite3::Database.new(":memory:", extensions: [Sqlpkg.path_for("asg017/ulid")])

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. For maintainers, to release a new version, run bin/release $VERSION, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push all of the platform-specific .gem files to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/fractaledmind/sqlpkg-ruby. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

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

Everyone interacting in the Sqlpkg::Ruby project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.