Post by Peter Cooper on April 11th, 2007

RailRoad: Generate model and controller diagrams for Rails applications

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RailRoad is a Ruby application that generates model or controller diagrams for Ruby on Rails applications. It analyzes properties, inheritance, model associations, and so forth, and produces a graph description in the DOT language which can then be handled with third-party tools. The official site features several compelling examples, including model and controller maps of the Typo blogging system (as seen above).

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3 Responses to “RailRoad: Generate model and controller diagrams for Rails applications”

  1. #1
    Hugh Bien Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    Wow, this tool is awesome.

    I've always been jealous at teammates who were using tools to print out their model schemas =P.

  2. #2
    Max Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 10:02 am

    Wow, I really like this tool, especially for visualizing how complex some applications are and what mess I have created in older projects ;)

  3. #3
    Daniel Fischer Says:
    April 14th, 2007 at 1:47 am

    This is certainly quite interesting, I wonder how I can find use for it.