EctoGenerator

Generate Ecto schemas from existing database in Phoenix - Elixir

Installation

1. Generate new Phoenix application

   [alexandrubagu@localhost devel]$ mix phoenix.new postgresapp

or

[alexandrubagu@localhost devel]$ mix phoenix.new mysqlapp --database mysql

1. Add ecto_generator to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:ecto_generator, "~> 2.0.0"}]
end

1. Install mix dependencies by running the following command in bash mix deps.get
2. Now you will find ecto.dump.schema in mix task:

[alexandrubagu@localhost devel/phoenix/] mix ecto
Ecto v2.0.5
A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.

Available tasks:

mix ecto.create        # Creates the repository storage
mix ecto.drop          # Drops the repository storage
mix ecto.dump          # Dumps the repository database structure
mix ecto.dump.schema   # Dump models from repos
mix ecto.gen.migration # Generates a new migration for the repo
mix ecto.gen.repo      # Generates a new repository
mix ecto.load          # Loads previously dumped database structure
mix ecto.migrate       # Runs the repository migrations
mix ecto.migrations    # Displays the repository migration status
mix ecto.rollback      # Rolls back the repository migrations