Ruby-on-Rails equivalent to ORM Designer for Symfony?

In Symfony i just have to create models with ORM Designer a开发者_Go百科nd export it to symfony as a schema.yml and then use a symfony command to create tables, models and forms.

I wonder if there is an equivalent to the RoR so that you dont have to create models manually by hand?

It saves a lot of time using GUI for this kind of tasks and it is less error-prone.

thanks

it should be possible to support RoR in ORM Designer. The trouble is that we know only PHP and wouldn't be able to beta test RoR support and create unit tests. But if there is anybody willing to help, please let us know at support at orm-designer dot com and RoR support can be released within a few months.

You can use the model generator with script/generate model to create a model class and migration. A great reference on migrations is cheat migrations which is available via the cheat command.

You could use the scaffold generator as per Getting Started with Rails, however scaffolds are "considered harmful" by many (including myself). I prefer to generate an initial migration with script/generate migration, tweak it to suit and then create/update my model, routes, controllers and views manually.

If you are still starting out, you will probably find it helpful to run through Getting Started with Rails at least once.