# Reverse engineering database

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reverse-engineering-database/174934>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 4, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reverse-engineering-database/174934 "2009-09-04T10:19:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![asrijaal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@asrijaal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/asrijaal)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reverse-engineering-database/174934/1 "2009-09-04T10:19:10Z")

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Hi guys,

I’m triying to get into the ruby on rails stuff, reading a lot and  
trying some stuff directly. I got a little question maybe someone of  
you can give me a short answer or tipp 😉

Is there a script/tool/plugin for rails to reverse engineer a database  
layout? (Something like Hibernate provides in Java - yes I’m a java  
dev but I wish I could change in time to RoR:))

Regards

asrijaal

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**Author:** ![asrijaal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@asrijaal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/asrijaal)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reverse-engineering-database/174934/2 "2009-09-04T17:26:47Z")

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asrijaal wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I’m triying to get into the ruby on rails stuff, reading a lot and  
> trying some stuff directly. I got a little question maybe someone of  
> you can give me a short answer or tipp 😉
> 
> Is there a script/tool/plugin for rails to reverse engineer a database  
> layout? (Something like Hibernate provides in Java - yes I’m a java  
> dev but I wish I could change in time to RoR:))

What do you mean by reverse engineering here? Are you talking about  
something like rake db:schema:dump ?

> Regards
> 
> asrijaal

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