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This is really nice!

To those trying it out: if the diagram seems inaccurate, try dragging tables around.

I uploaded a very simple schema, but seemingly unrelated tables looked connected. Turns out it's 100% accurate, but relationships can run behind other tables and make it look like things are connected that aren't. Detangling is easy with a few drags/drops and you get a really nice diagram out of it.

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This comment is precisely why I have a ton of respect for the people who develop visualization algorithms like in Graphviz. Given a DAG or ERD, the logic to properly render that as something that makes sense to your typical developer is HARD. Mad props to the people who tackle that problem.

Thanks for the love! Yes since rails convention is clear-cut and standardized, we can read those implicit conversions in the backend and convert to necessary relationships.

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