Rails: Faster way to perform updates on many records

Question

In our Rails 3.2.13 app (Ruby 2.0.0 + Postgres on Heroku), we are often retreiving a large amount of Order data from an API, and then we need to update or create each order in o

Answer 1

Try wrapping your entire code into a single database transaction. Since you're on Heroku it'll be a Postgres bottom-end. With that many update statements, you can probably benefit greatly by transacting them all at once, so your code executes quicker and basically just leaves a "queue" of 6500 statements to run on Postgres side as the server is able to dequeue them. Depending on the bottom end, you might have to transact into smaller chunks - but even transacting 100 at a time (and then close and re-open the transaction) would greatly improve throughput into Pg.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Transactions/ClassMethods.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-set-transaction.html

So before line 2 you'd add something like:

def add_details(shop, shopify_orders)
  Order.transaction do
    shopify_orders.each do |shopify_order|

And then at the very end of your method add another end:

      if !payment_details.blank?
        PaymentDetail.add_details(order, payment_details)
      end
    end //shopify_orders.each..
  end //Order.transaction..
end //method