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Generate Rails diagrams with RailRoad

First, download graphviz

Then, sudo gem install railroad

First let’s just take a look at the models. From rails_root: railroad -o models.dot -M

Then open models.dot with graphviz.

If you plan to run this often, then paste the code below into: ‘lib/tasks/diagrams.rake’

Then run from rails root with rake doc:diagrams

P.S. If you have nested stuff, be sure to patch your gem as shown here:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=20135&group_id=3383&atid=12998

December 16, 2008