ridgepole/ridgepole

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1117 stars · 137 forks observed · 2026-09-01

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Ridgepole is a Ruby CLI tool that manages database schemas declaratively using Rails schema DSL. It diffs the desired schema definition against the live database and applies the changes automatically, similar to Chef/Puppet for infrastructure.

Use cases

• manage database schema as code instead of hand-written migrations
• apply declarative schema changes to MySQL or PostgreSQL
• diff and sync a Schemafile with an existing Rails database
• replace sequential ActiveRecord migrations with a single schema definition
• version-control database schema changes in a team workflow

When to choose

• you use Rails/ActiveRecord and prefer declarative schema management over migration files
• you want idempotent schema convergence like Chef/Puppet for your database
• you manage MySQL or PostgreSQL schemas across environments and want reproducible diffs

When to avoid

• you are not in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem
• you rely on data migrations or complex step-by-step migration logic
• you need databases other than MySQL/PostgreSQL with ActiveRecord adapters

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

database configuration-management cli developer-tools databases developer-tools web-development ruby cli schema-migration declarative-schema activerecord mysql postgresql rails-dsl infrastructure-as-code-for-db automation linux macos

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