title: How do you discover model attributes in Rails?
body: <p>I am finding it difficult to easily see what attributes/properties exist on all of my model classes since they are not explicitly defined in my class files.</p>
  
  <p>To discover model attributes, I keep the schema.rb file open and flip between it and whatever code I'm writing as needed.  This works but is clunky because I have to switch between reading the schema file to pick up attributes, the model class file to check methods, and whatever new code that I'm writing to call attributes &amp; methods.  </p>
  
  <p>My question is, how do you discover model attributes when you're analyzing a Rails codebase for the first time?  Do you keep the schema.rb file open all the time, or is there a better way that doesn't involve jumping between schema file &amp; model file constantly? </p>