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I use Rails as a portable, light, zero-conf frontend for data exploration. Just create the minimum viable rails app (--api), fill in the database connection, an
by KarlKemp 5y ago
I use Rails as a portable, light, zero-conf frontend for data exploration. Just create the minimum viable rails app (--api), fill in the database connection, and you get a powerful REPL for exploring + rake to run transformations.
- stephenhuey 5y agoI have certainly turned to Rails many times to write a bunch of ActiveRecord models to play around with data in the console without ever running the web server.
- ignurant 5y agoThere’s even a book about that! https://datavisualizationtoolkit.com/ https://datavisualizationtoolkit.com/ Who would have thought that the “Data Visualization Toolkit” would be about Rails? Turns out, it’s pretty sweet actually! rails new, g migration, baddaboom. I’ve done this a few times, but usually use chartkick rather than d3 as the book suggests.