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
