Hi, thanks for reading. Till now, I''ve used railroad to visualize my models. But as far as I can see, there''s no possibility to add information about the model class methods. Methods are only added to a diagram, if you visualize your controllers. Is there a way to change this behavior? I''ve looked out for something else and found ''ruby-uml'', seems to realize what I am looking for, but due to it''s real basic documentation I can''t used it. Did you ever use it and can show me an example? Thank you for your answers! ms
Take a look at Rubymine from JetBrains. They generate a really slick E/R diagram that is quite close to the UML diagrams.
ms wrote:> Hi, > > thanks for reading. Till now, I''ve used railroad to visualize my > models. But as far as I can see, there''s no possibility to add > information about the model class methods. Methods are only added to a > diagram, if you visualize your controllers. Is there a way to change > this behavior?Open up Railroad''s intermediate DOT format and write on it. There are also DOT editors, not that I would trust them. http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation/dotguide.pdf <-- the language reference However, why are you doing this? Who will read the diagram? What value will it add? At my last Rails gig, we would print out a Railsroad once per big project, to see the current models, then we would scribble on it. What''s wrong with that technique? -- Phlip http://flea.sourceforge.net/resume.html
Hey, thanks for all answers so far.> What''s wrong with that technique?No, there''s nothing wrong with that. I just wanted railroad to also add the model class methods to the diagram, this is possible just by editing the DOT data(?) That would be nice, thanks for the hint! cheers, ms On 10 Mai, 16:51, Phlip <phlip2...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> ms wrote: > > Hi, > > > thanks for reading. Till now, I''ve used railroad to visualize my > > models. But as far as I can see, there''s no possibility to add > > information about the model class methods. Methods are only added to a > > diagram, if you visualize your controllers. Is there a way to change > > this behavior? > > Open up Railroad''s intermediate DOT format and write on it. There are also DOT > editors, not that I would trust them. > > http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation/dotguide.pdf <-- the language reference > > However, why are you doing this? Who will read the diagram? What value will it > add? At my last Rails gig, we would print out a Railsroad once per big project, > to see the current models, then we would scribble on it. What''s wrong with that > technique? > > -- > Phlip > http://flea.sourceforge.net/resume.html
ms wrote:> No, there''s nothing wrong with that. I just wanted railroad to also > add the model class methods to the diagram, this is possible just by > editing the DOT data(?) That would be nice, thanks for the hint!Unfortunately yes, if you type them all in. Models should have enough methods that this tedium will obviate the benefit of automatically generating the graph. You might ask Railroad''s author... -- Phlip http://flea.sourceforge.net/resume.html