tool for visualizing schema and associations

I'm working with other people on a Rails project with a fairly "deep" set of interconnected data.

This is the first time I've tried to discuss data organization with non-database-savvy folks (they know and understand the data we're working with but are not familiar with sql concepts or rails associations).

It would be really helpful if I had a tool that I could use to very easily create a graphic representation of what we have so far in terms of tables and associations.

Anybody have a suggestion for a (hopefully free) tool for generating a graphical representation of this sort of info? Table contents would be good, but the primary thing is the tables and their associations graphed in a visually meaningful way.

thanks, jp

HI Jeff,

bill walton wrote:

HI Jeff,

of tables and associations.

Anybody have a suggestion for a (hopefully free) tool for generating a graphical representation of this sort of info? Table contents would be good, but the primary thing is the tables and their associations graphed in a visually meaningful way.

I'd recommend you take a look at RailRoad (http://railroad.rubyforge.org/) as a starting point.

That's a good tool if you want to do this from the Rails classes. If instead you want to take the DB schema as a starting point, try SchemaSpy or Power*Architect.

HTH, Bill

Best,

Hi Jeff,

have you tried Railroad?

http://railroad.rubyforge.org/

Cheers, Roman

sorry, I've overseen, that you already got the proposition for railroad.

Roman

sorry, I've overseen, that you already got the proposition for railroad.

Roman