Does anyone have a good ERD generation gem?

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  1. Rails Erd

    Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications

    This PR seems to fix it. But the issue is with the deprecating of “parent”. The PR has been open for a while, but they haven’t been able to fix the CI build.

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  3. RailRoady

    Ruby on Rails 3/4/5 model and controller UML class diagram generator. (`brew/port/apt-get install graphviz` before use!)

    Something that shows the relations' cardinality would be nice! Off-hand I do not know but there's this and maybe some other stuff here

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