indexter

A gem for discovering foreign key indexes that may be missing from your Rails project.

Example

Given a Rails table like so:

ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
  create_table :addresses, :force => true do |t|
    t.string :street
    ...
    t.integer :user_id
    t.integer :property_id
  end

  add_index :addresses, :user_id
end

By default, inDexter will return a hash:

{:suffixes=>["_id", "_uuid"], :exclusions=>["schema_migrations"], :missing=>{"addresses" => ["property_id"]}}

which indicated that you that you might want to add an index on table addresses for the property_id column.

Installation

1. Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'indexter'

1. And then execute:

   $ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install indexter

Configuration

Indexter is configured by creating an .indexter.yaml file in the root directory of your project (at the same level as your .gitignore and .ruby-version file).

Into this file you define the output format, the tables to be excluded from analysis, and the extensions the denote the columns you want to analyze.

format

The output format the results of the analysis should be displayed in. See Formatters, below, for more details.

exclusions

A list of the tables you do not want to analyze.

suffixes

A list of the column extensions that define which columns should probably be indexed.

Example

format: table
exclusions:
  - table: default_companies
  - table: schema_migrations
  - table: taggings
suffixes:
  - _id
  - _uuid

Indexter provides a convenience rake task for viewing your .indexter.yaml config file:

rake indexter:config

Usage

Rails Console

$ rails c
irb(main):001:0> Indexter.validate
=> {:suffixes=>["_id", "_uuid"], :exclusions=>["schema_migrations"], :missing=>{}}

In that example the project has no missing indexes.

$ rails c
irb(main):001:0> Indexter.validate
=> {:suffixes=>["_id", "_uuid"], :exclusions=>["schema_migrations"], :missing=>{"users"=>["active_company_id"]}}

In that example the users table is missing an index on active_company_id.

Rake Task

$ bundle exec rake indexter:validate
{:suffixes=>["_id", "_uuid"], :exclusions=>["schema_migrations"], :missing=>{}}

In that example the project has no missing indexes.

$ bundle exec rake indexter:validate
{:suffixes=>["_id", "_uuid"], :exclusions=>["schema_migrations"], :missing=>{"users"=>["active_company_id"]}}

In that example the users table is missing an index on active_company_id.

Formatters

Out of the box, inDexter returns a Ruby hash of the results. But maybe that's not what you want? Fortunately inDexter also provides a number of additional formatting options:

• hash: the default option, returns a Ruby hash
• json: renders the output as a JSON string
• pass_fail: like a Unix process, returns 0 if no missing index, n if missing indexes, where n is the number of missing indexes
• table: renders the output as an ASCII-art table

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at Github: inDexter. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

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