2025-09-30: Maintenance work meeting notes

[mroderick]

Website Working Group 1 - 2025-09-30

Agenda

1. Database migrations
2. Tools
3. Other updates

Notes

Database migrations

We were trying to figure out what happens when you run a database migration in Rails and then use a method like .list_columns. Michael ran migrations on staging manually, because we don't have an automatic way to run it.

How we change the database with no downtime. Example article (via Ole): https://github.com/barsoom/devbook/tree/master/deploy_without_downtime

We talked about Heroku's capabilities in terms of release phase and implemented that and now run the migrations going forward. We deployed the change to staging and production.

This includes all the latest migrations that had been merged to the main branch.

Tools

We are exceeding the free plans on a regular basis and discussed if e.g. ScoutAPM is the right choice if we could spend money on it or if there are competitors/alternatives that are better suited for a Rails app.

Other Updates

Progress: The Rails 7.2 branch is ready to be rebased, to get closer to being merged.

Release notes for organisers

• New dietary restrictions on signup page and profile edit page
• Invitation emails can now contain a description field

Next agenda

• Conventional commits and CommitLint?