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Orderly JSON. LDAP Schema Design. Andrew Findlay February 2005 It is possible to make one LDAP directory serve many applications in an organisation.

LDAP Schema Design

This has the advantage of reducing the effort required to maintain the data, but it does mean that the design must be thought out very carefully before implementation starts. LDAP directories are structured as a tree of entries, where each entry consists of a set of attribute-value pairs describing one object. The objects are often people, organisations, and departments, but can be anything at all. SchemaSpy. Visualize your Rails schema.

While doing some Ruby on Rails code refactoring, I realized I’d like to visualize the database schema of the application.

Visualize your Rails schema

An easy possibility is to print out db/schema.rb. This seems a bit too linear and little visual to me.