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RailRoad - diagram generator for Models, Controllers and StateMachines

by russbuelt —

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 —

Thanks for the hint, seems better maintained.. =)

Adding Link to my post.

russbuelt —

Tightened up the original post - it was too spread out for the front page.

PeterCooper —

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 —

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