Rails - Jul 2005 - dbmodel - A gem for generating Rails files from DBDesigner

dbmodel is a tool to generate Rails files (models, scaffolds) from a
free graphic database design tool, DBDesigner 4. You can create tables
in DBDesigner, specify table relations, synchronize the model with a
MySQL database, and then use dbmodel to automatically generate code.
Table relationships like "has_many :beers" are inserted into the
appropriate model files if they aren''t already there. (dbmodel is
non-destructive, hopefully.)

dbmodel version 0.1.0 is available as a gem
(http://www.billkatz.com/gems/dbmodel-0.1.0.gem). This is my first
exercise in building a gem, or a non-toy Ruby application for that
matter, so suggestions/tips are very welcome. The idea for dbmodel
fell naturally out of the DRY principle. I''m releasing early in the
hopes of sparking brainstorms on how to graft nice front-end tools to
the very coder-friendly Rails framework. Then we''ll have the best of
both worlds: nice design tools and easy-to-read code when drilling
down into programs.

Two screenshots and the README rdoc are available at my blog entry:
http://www.billkatz.com/rails_dbmodel

-Bill

has any got dbdesigner to run on osx?

Sam

On 7/25/05, Bill Katz <billkatz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> dbmodel is a tool to generate Rails files (models, scaffolds) from a
> free graphic database design tool, DBDesigner 4. You can create tables
> in DBDesigner, specify table relations, synchronize the model with a
> MySQL database, and then use dbmodel to automatically generate code.
> Table relationships like "has_many :beers" are inserted into the
> appropriate model files if they aren''t already there. (dbmodel is
> non-destructive, hopefully.)
> 
> dbmodel version 0.1.0 is available as a gem
> (http://www.billkatz.com/gems/dbmodel-0.1.0.gem). This is my first
> exercise in building a gem, or a non-toy Ruby application for that
> matter, so suggestions/tips are very welcome. The idea for dbmodel
> fell naturally out of the DRY principle. I''m releasing early in
the
> hopes of sparking brainstorms on how to graft nice front-end tools to
> the very coder-friendly Rails framework. Then we''ll have the best
of
> both worlds: nice design tools and easy-to-read code when drilling
> down into programs.
> 
> Two screenshots and the README rdoc are available at my blog entry:
> http://www.billkatz.com/rails_dbmodel
> 
> -Bill
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I think it will be soon. The successor to DBDesigner, MySQL Workbench,
is supposed to be out this year. Here''s the only news:
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?35,26929,29633#msg-29633

The other MySQL tools like Administrator and Query Browser are
available for Mac OS X, so I imagine Workbench will be as well.

On 7/25/05, Sam Mayes <codeslave-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> has any got dbdesigner to run on osx?
> 
> Sam