Crescent Wrenches and Debuggers: Building Your Own Toolkit For Rational Inquiry by Kerri Miller

Software exists in a constant state of failure, facing pressure on many fronts - malicious intruders, hapless users, accidental features, and our own limits of imagination all conspire to bring our system to a screeching halt. Untangle even the most tangled of Gordian Knots by building your own toolkit for inquiry, by relying on the simplest technique of all: asking “why?”

This presentation will discuss the challenges and potential solutions for refreshing multiple application environments (Development/Staging/UAT/etc.) with data from a Production database, while keeping some amount of table data intact from the prior database after the Production restore.

RubyNation 2017