Thanks for the link to that option, Dougal. I have typically managed my models textually in the past - and maybe that's still the best way to do things. Especially if you can use things like graph_models to output a visual representation for discussion purposes. I was just trying out a new way of doing things and wondering if anybody else in the Django community was already managing models visually.
Plus, there's the 'light-weight' argument. MySQL Workbench is the first free/functional ERD management tool I've found - and it's pretty heavy duty. I'm not sure I want to depend on an application like that for fundamental design work.. On Feb 18, 9:38 am, Dougal Matthews <douga...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 February 2010 00:03, snfctech <tschm...@sacfoodcoop.com> wrote: > > > I just built a complicated schema with MySQL workbench and am looking > > at Python frameworks to start implementation. > > > Does anybody in the Django community do this? What's your practice > > for going back and forth between the ERD and the ORM? I saw > > DjangoGraphvizhttp://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoGraphviz- > > which looks like you manage your schema in your Django models and can > > then export those to a visual representation. Does anyone use that? > > > I would love a visual DB design tool that automatically generated my > > framework models - but I'm sure that doesn't exist. > > You could always continue to use MySQL workbench and use django-admin.py > inspecdb[1] to create the models. It seems a bit backwards to me and I > imagine it will trip up eventually... > > I would suggest you try to get used to managing them via python - there is a > reason most people use it, it really works quite well. > > [1]:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#inspectdb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
