AlexP has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks! Does anybody knows plugins or any solution for dancer2 to run migrations (db versioning)? I have found DBIx::Class::Migration but it's use DBIx schema classes (I prefer pure sql) and there is no Dancer2 plugin for it.

Maybe it's time to create my first official package? However, I hope there is a solution for this.

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Re: Dancer2 database migrations
by erix (Prior) on Aug 07, 2021 at 11:15 UTC

    Perhaps sqitch? (I've not used it but people are generally positive about it)

Re: Dancer2 database migrations
by AlexP (Pilgrim) on Aug 12, 2021 at 17:56 UTC

    After a lot of searching and even questions in the dancer's chat, I decided to write my own extremely simple solution that can be used with Dancer2 easily.

    My first Perl cpan module: DBIx::Schema::Migration.

    To use it with Dancer2 update your config.yml with:

    migrations: directory: db/migrations

    Then create db/migrations directory and put the sql migrations files there. All conventions are described in module documentation.

    Create migration script: migration.pl

    use Dancer2; use Dancer2::Plugin::Database; use DBIx::Schema::Migration; my $dir = config->{migrations}->{directory}; # Instantinating Migration object. my $migration = DBIx::Schema::Migration->new( { dbh => database, dir => $dir, } ); # CLI logic. my ($action, $num) = @ARGV; SWITCH: for ($action) { if (/up/) { $migration->up($num); last SWITCH; } if (/down/) { $migration->down($num); last SWITCH; } if (/init/) { $migration->init(); last SWITCH; } }

    That's all. You can use it via CLI:

    perl migration.pl up perl migration.pl down perl migration.pl init
Re: Dancer2 database migrations
by perlfan (Parson) on Aug 08, 2021 at 02:30 UTC
    Need more details. May want to look at MySQL::Diff, but generally speaking I don't think there is a magic solution. As suggested below, sqitch could be an option (videos in link provided). But it's not a magic solution either.