Re:Why we're ending support for MySQL
by darkpuma on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @04:01PM
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I mean, nobody uses sqlite for rails in production (except when they do because their load is genuinely low.) It's mostly there for when you're just running something for yourself on your own dev machine, most often for testing purposes. For something like this it makes a lot of sense to use sqlite. Avoid that in production though obviously.
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From the sqlite docs:
> SQLite works great as the database engine for most low to medium traffic websites (which is to say, most websites).
Oh, I know people do it. My point isn't that they should or shouldn't do it, but rather that supporting sqlite as a low-config option specifically to facilitate testing makes a lot of sense. Arguably more sense than continuing to support mysql when postgres exists.