Kerri Miller

2.0 idea - mountable JS/SVG graphs

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WHAT IF.. in addition to a command line artifact generator, we had a development env only route that would generate a clickable JS/SVG graph in the browser?

erd diff

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Generate an ERD and allow it to be compared to a prior version of the graph, and color code new attributes, objects, and relationships

Fix invocation split once and for all

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`$ erd` and `$ rake erd` are handled by 2 completely different codepaths. This is an oversight that is causing a lot of pain, both for our users and for...

Add color coding of lines to indicate relationship

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We should color-code the lines so that it is easier to understand the relationships between objects.

Fix `only` option from Choice to always be an array

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right now, if you pass in a single model, it errors because it casts the value as a String instead of an Array.

Should the README be updated?

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Should the README be updated? _Originally posted by @s2t2 in https://github.com/voormedia/rails-erd/issues/282#issuecomment-377805733_

[BRAINSTORMING] Other ways of generating the graph data

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Since we walk the ActiveRecord relationships built as the Rails app spins up, its hard for us to find these other models. That's something I occasionally think about changing, but...

Update documentation and website

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We added Rails 4.x support in #120, and as was recently pointed out in #115 our documentation is a bit lacking. I'd like to see a README pass to make...

document auto-generate features

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Added by #148 the auto-generate feature will, when installed, generate a new ERD whenever `rake db:migrate` is invoked in development.

#160 and #12 contain a fair bit of information on troubleshooting Graphviz installs (which I personally have never run into, so it's never been a priority.) While I don't want...