rafaelp-dbdesigner_migration_generator

DBDesigner Migration Generator

DESCRIPTION

This gem generates ActiveRecord Migration files from a DB Designer 4 xml file.

REQUIREMENTS

• activerecord

INSTALLATION

$ sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (you only have to do this once)
$ sudo gem install rafaelp-dbdesigner_migration_generator

Inset line below in your config/environments/development.rb

require 'dbdesigner_migration_generator'

USAGE

Save you model in db/dbdesigner_model.xml, then run:

$ ruby script/generate dbdesigner_migration [MigrationName] [only|except] [table1] [table2] [table3]

Example 1

$ ruby script/generate dbdesigner_migration CompleteDatabase

Example 2

$ ruby script/generate dbdesigner_migration CreateAccountsAndUsers only accounts users

Example 3

$ ruby script/generate dbdesigner_migration CreateOtherTables except accounts users

Tricks

You can put the magical keyword ignore on first line of table comments, on your model at DB Designer, to automatically ignore the table on migration generation.

LICENSE

DBDesigner Migration Generator is released under the MIT License.

AUTHOR

Rafael Lima at BielSystems and Myfreecomm