fuelen

fuelen

Hi all!

I want to present a small library which provides a mix task for generating an Entity-Relationship Diagram for Ecto schemas.
You can check examples of output for a couple of open-source projects in docs or directly on GitHub.

Links:

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stefanchrobot

stefanchrobot

Neat! Would be cool to be possible to generate input for https://dbdiagram.io.

fuelen

fuelen OP

Thank you for the suggestion, will add this to the roadmap :slight_smile:

fuelen

fuelen OP

Added DBML support in version 0.2.0 :tada:

fuelen

fuelen OP

Added QuickDBD support in version 0.3.0

jc00ke

jc00ke

@fuelen thank you so much! I just used Ecto.ERD and it worked nicely.

webuhu

webuhu

Very cool. Thanks a lot.
It could probably replace ERAlchemy the tool I’m still using for this kind of documentation task.

fuelen

fuelen OP

Added PlantUML support in version 0.4.0 :partying_face:

fuelen

fuelen OP

Added Mermaid support in version 0.5.0 :partying_face:

Nezteb

Nezteb

Just used this for a take-home coding assessment where I’m asked to dissect an existing Ecto schema and fix some related tests.

This lib and the ERD it generated were extremely helpful. Thank you for building this!

Eiji

Eiji

Looks awesome. Going to test it soon. Thanks!

Edit: Just tried all formats and my favourite one is PlantUML as it’s generating best graph images.

I would like to suggest small changes:

  1. By default do not include migrations schema as it’s used only by ecto internally
  2. Can you change the id to something like: id : id (schema_name.table_name) (as passed to schema macro)?
  3. Can you also change other id fields to something like field_name : id (schema_name.table_name.foreign_key_field_name)
  4. Could you by default use last 2 parts of Elixir module, so we have just short MyContext.MySchema instead of MyApp.MyContext.MySchema?

So for example instead of:

MyApp.MyContext.MySchema
id : id
source_field_id : id
string_field : string

we would have:

MyContext.MySchema
id : id (public.my_table_name)
assoc_field : belongs to (public.my_another_table_name.source_field_id)
string_field : string

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