Local development - Ardent

A branch takes 6 seconds, and on it you can run any migration, drop any table, try any index. If it breaks, delete the branch and start over. Your production data is never at risk.

How it works

# Starting a new feature
ardent branch create my-feature

# Work, run migrations, break things freely
BRANCH_DATABASE_URL="$(ardent branch info --print-url)"
if [ -z "$BRANCH_DATABASE_URL" ]; then
  echo "branch info did not return a database URL" >&2
  exit 1
fi
psql "$BRANCH_DATABASE_URL"

# Done, or it all went wrong. Either way:
ardent branch delete my-feature

Working across multiple tasks

ardent branch list
# * ● my-feature
#   ○ auth-refactor
#   ○ index-experiment

ardent branch switch auth-refactor

Branches auto-suspend after 5 minutes of inactivity. Leave them running and they won’t cost you anything while idle.