This is an affirmation I’ve been longing to here, lol!
I’ve already done the legwork, cloning to the current prod DB locally and playing around with migrations, but the fear of applying anything potentially-production breaking is scary to a dev who has never had to work on a “critical” production system!
I would recommend setting up a staging app with a copy of the production database, testing a migration script there, then running the same script on production once you're confident.
I’ve already done the legwork, cloning to the current prod DB locally and playing around with migrations, but the fear of applying anything potentially-production breaking is scary to a dev who has never had to work on a “critical” production system!