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RailRoad - diagram generator for Models, Controllers and StateMachines

Posted by russbuelt on October 14, 2009 — 4 comments
Sometimes it is necessary for me to visualize my Models and Controllers to match them against some hand drawn wireframes to see the progress and gaps. Although it's handy to have everything visualized to see whats going on under the hood of legacy applications and more important models/schemas. I found a wounderful gem which provides this functionality using graphviz called RailRoad.

There are also some alternative versions you should check out:
ddollar - railroad - Thanks, Bruno Michel
royw - railroad_xing - Support for Merb & DataMapper

Comments

“” I recommend the version of David Dollar on github: ddolar-railroad.Bruno Michel - October 14, 2009 09:15
“” Thanks for the hint, seems better maintained.. =)

Adding Link to my post.russbuelt - October 14, 2009 10:38
“” Tightened up the original post - it was too spread out for the front page.PeterCooper - October 14, 2009 11:08
“” Wow very cool. We might have to incorporate this into Caliper. A couple of days ago I was thinking how cool a tool like this would be, glad to see something interesting already exists.

I guess ddolar-railroad, is the best recommended version, will give it a shot.danmayer - October 14, 2009 21:59
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