Create RoR model diagrams with yUMLmeRails

Posted May 22, 2009

I just hacked together a simple plugin for RoR apps in order to show a simple model diagram.

If been a fan of RailRoad since the beginning, it generates simple dot and neato diagrams from your rails application.

Now I just found out about the cool http://yuml.me beta and decided to use RailRoad to create yUML diagrams.

I created a GitHub project so you can look at the code and make whatever changes you want. The project page has more info on the plugin.

I was also thinking of adding a Shoes app to create the diagrams but for now I just use it to display the diagram.

Please keep in mind that the source’s all messy and is far from finished, perhaps someone else would like to make it a whole lot better

5 Comments so far

Tobin Harris on May 23rd, 2009

Awesome, as a fan or RailRoad I was thinking of doing something like this Like the idea of a Shoes app too.

I haven’t downloaded the code yet, but will take a look.

A few suggestions:

- give the GitHub readme file a .markdown extension so it renders more nicely
- In the readme file, post a sample Image URL (pointing to yUML), to visually indicate what the diagrams will look like. For example: http://gist.github.com/108176

Cheers
admin on May 24th, 2009

Hi Tobin,

I’ll try to update the README asap. I’ll gladly add collaborators to the project so just let me know if you’re interested. I just hacked this in a couple of hours so there’s plenty to do.
Tobin Harris on May 26th, 2009

Just saw the updated readme, nice work Haven’t actually had time to have a play with it yet, but look foward to it.
RichardOn on May 27th, 2009

Interesting site, but much advertisments on him. Shall read as subscription, rss.
haad bodla on May 31st, 2009

aaa sorry new at this…exactly where would i find this ’shoe app’