Justin Tyler Wiley

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May 9, 2011 at 8:00pm
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While looking for a good way to visualize ActiveRecord models, I stumbled upon Rails ERD.  I followed the painless install process which is essentially involves adding a one-liner in bundler and installing Graphviz via the DMG, and fired off the associated Rails ERD rake task.  5 seconds later I had a readable, dynamically generated PDF of the database schema for my project.  Hats off to Rolf Timmermans for this useful utility.

While looking for a good way to visualize ActiveRecord models, I stumbled upon Rails ERD.  I followed the painless install process which is essentially involves adding a one-liner in bundler and installing Graphviz via the DMG, and fired off the associated Rails ERD rake task.  5 seconds later I had a readable, dynamically generated PDF of the database schema for my project.  Hats off to Rolf Timmermans for this useful utility.

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