Visual DB Modelling on Mac

Rails
1

Since most of the rails developers seem to use macs, could someone
possibly suggest a good visual db modelling tool to use along with
rails and MySQL?
So far I’ve already tested the absolutely unsuable Workbench as well as
dbSketch, which was not adequate either.

The tool needn’t be free, as long as it is stable, works with MySQL and
has a trial version.

Thanks in advance,

2

DBVisualizer, from minq.se

Its java, so you’ll need your MySQL jdbc driver, but I use this to
visualize all my tables as well as keep a history of my commands etc.

On 8/21/06, Molotoff [email protected] wrote:

Thanks in advance,

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  • Nic
3

YourSQL is great for basic stuff:
http://yoursql.ludit.it

Navicat is great for advanced stuff (like building complex queries
visually):

It also helps to know that a lot of “important” folks (including
Apple) use Navicat:
http://www.navicat.com/user_stories.html

Cheers, Joannou.

We have 17,000 applicants for 1,000 retail positions. It’s harder to
get a job at an Apple Store than it is to get admitted to Stanford
University. - Ron Johnson, Senior Vice President of Retail, Apple
Computer, Inc.

4

I think he was looking for an ER diagraming tool.

The Macintosh world is distressing lacking in this area right now.

5

try

http://visualizemodels.rubyforge.org/

which requires

pixelglow | graphviz

pt.

On 8/21/06, Molotoff [email protected] wrote:

Thanks in advance,

–
Parker T.

510.541.0125

6

Thank you, guys for your help!

XERD is not mentioned anymore on its developer’s site - it seems to
have suffered some sort of data loss, the current version at
VersionTracker is reported to have some crashing issues.

Guess, I will stick with DBVisualizer - it seems pretty adequate.

7

On 22-aug-2006, at 0:54, Molotoff wrote:

has a trial version.
The only promising tool in this area was called XERD. Don’t know how
far it went though.

–
Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov
please send all personal mail to
me at julik.nl

8

I’ve not used it on a Mac, but DataArchitect is pretty nice:
http://www.thekompany.com/products/dataarchitect

On 8/21/06, Molotoff [email protected] wrote:

Thanks in advance,

–
Larry W.
http://www.approachingnormal.com
http://www.welcometoparenthood.com

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On 23/08/06, Molotoff [email protected] wrote:

Guess, I will stick with DBVisualizer - it seems pretty adequate.

You might want to consider OmniGraffle, from the Omni Group. Although it
is
a general diagramming tool – sort of like Visio, it includes a template
for
E-R diagrams and there’s a MySQL one available.

Cheers,
Hasan D. [email protected]