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Can we test other databases?

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
mysql, postgresql, ruby, sqlite
Domain
databases, testing

Research direction

Start by comparing the repository's existing tests for SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL with the ActiveRecord repository's approach to testing its adapters. Identify which additional databases are in scope and define done as equivalent coverage running successfully against them.

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Description

AR has adapters for a lot more than Sqlite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Can we test our code that works against those, too? What does the AR repo do about this?

Dominant language
Ruby
Stars
76
Forks
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  • No contributing guide

First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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