RailsSQLPrettifier

This is an ActiveRecord integration for a niceql gem ( niceql is a small, nice, simple and zero dependency solution for the SQL prettifying in ruby ).

This gem started as a code extraction from niceql version 0.4.x.

It has versioning aligned to the ActiveRecord versions, niceql prior to 0.5 version had hardcoded logic branches based on ActiveRecord versioning.

That is hard to maintain and hard to test, and also coupling with AR is breaking the original idea of the niceql to be a dependentless solution, so now the niceql is a completely railsfree gem yeay! ( It still has some some checks related to AR implementations in the error prettifying methods. It will be completely decoupled in the future )

Any reasonable suggestions are welcome.

Please pay attention: until issue https://github.com/alekseyl/niceql/issues/16 is resolved any UPDATE or INSERT request might corrupt your data, don't use on production!

Before/After

SQL prettifier:

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PG errors prettifier

before: alt text

after: alt text

Installation

rails_sql_prettifier, has several version compatible with different active_record versions, so pay attention to the right versioning if whenever you specify versions manually.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails_sql_prettifier', '~> X.X.X'

And then execute:

$ bundle
# if you are using rails, you may want to install niceql config:
rails g niceql:install 

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install niceql

Configuration

Niceql.configure do |c|
  # Setting pg_adapter_with_nicesql to true will force formatting SQL queries
  # before execution. Formatted SQL will lead to much better SQL-query debugging and much more clearer error messages 
  # if you are using Postgresql as a data source. 
  # BUT do not use it in production until https://github.com/alekseyl/niceql/issues/16 is resolved 
  # 
  # You can adjust pg_adapter in production but do it at your own risk!
  # 
  # If you need to debug SQL queries in production use exec_niceql
  # 
  # default value for pg_adapter_with_nicesql: false
  # uncomment next string to enable in development
  # c.pg_adapter_with_nicesql = Rails.env.development?

  # uncomment next string if you want to log prettified SQL inside ActiveRecord logging. 
  # default: false
  # c.prettify_active_record_log_output = true

  # Error prettifying is also configurable
  # default: defined? ::ActiveRecord::Base && ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[Rails.env]['adapter'] == 'postgresql'
  # c.prettify_pg_errors = defined? ::ActiveRecord::Base && ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[Rails.env]['adapter'] == 'postgresql'

  # spaces count for one indentation, default is 2
  c.indentation_base = 2

  # setting open_bracket_is_newliner to true will start opening brackets '(' with nested subqueries from new line 
  # i.e. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT * FROM tags ) tags; will transform to: 
  # SELECT * 
  # FROM 
  # ( 
 #    SELECT * FROM tags 
 #  ) tags;
 # when open_bracket_is_newliner is false: 
  # SELECT * 
  # FROM ( 
 #   SELECT * FROM tags 
 # ) tags; 
 # default: false
  c.open_bracket_is_newliner = false
end

Usage

  # puts colorized and formatted corresponding SQL query
  Model.scope.niceql

  # only formatting without colorization, you can run output of to_niceql as a SQL query in connection.execute  
  Model.scope.to_niceql

  # prettify PG errors if scope runs with any 
  Model.scope_with_err.exec_niceql 

Raw usage of niceql


    puts Niceql::Prettifier.prettify_sql("SELECT * FROM ( VALUES(1), (2) ) AS tmp")
    #=>  SELECT * 
    #=>  FROM ( VALUES(1), (2) ) AS tmp

    puts Niceql::Prettifier.prettify_multiple("SELECT * FROM ( VALUES(1), (2) ) AS tmp; SELECT * FROM table")

    #=>  SELECT * 
    #=>  FROM ( VALUES(1), (2) ) AS tmp;
    #=>
    #=>  SELECT * 
    #=>  FROM table


   puts Niceql::Prettifier.prettify_pg_err( pg_err_output, sql_query )

   # to get real nice result you should execute prettified version (i.e. execute( prettified_sql ) !) of query on your DB! 
   # otherwise you will not get such a nice output
    raw_sql = <<~SQL
     SELECT err 
     FROM ( VALUES(1), (2) )
     ORDER BY 1
    SQL

    puts Niceql::Prettifier.prettify_pg_err(<<~ERR, raw_sql )
        ERROR:  VALUES in FROM must have an alias
        LINE 2:  FROM ( VALUES(1), (2) )
                      ^
        HINT:  For example, FROM (VALUES ...) [AS] foo.
    ERR


    # ERROR:  VALUES in FROM must have an alias
    # LINE 2:  FROM ( VALUES(1), (2) )
    #               ^
    #     HINT:  For example, FROM (VALUES ...) [AS] foo.
    #     SELECT err
    #     FROM ( VALUES(1), (2) )
    #          ^
    #     ORDER BY 1

Customizing colors

If your console support more colors or different schemes, or if you prefer different colorization, then you can override ColorizeString methods. Current colors were selected with dark and white console themes in mind, so a niceql colorization works good for dark, and good enough for white.

Testing

docker-compose up

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/alekseyl/niceql.

License

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