Help with railroad

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Can anyone help me install railroad gem?

What I need is a simple class diagram of my rails website. Not necessarily with railroad (if you know any other software, for mac, that works).

The website is http://railroad.rubyforge.org/

I couldn’t find any explanation on how to install it.

Thank you,

Rodrigo

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Have you tried running the command "gem install railroad"? What result does that give you?

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I am happy using rails erd:

http://rails-erd.rubyforge.org/

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If needed, not only the model diagrams, use http://github.com/preston/railroady.

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I did manage to install it with ‘install railroad gem’, problem is that when I run any command like ‘railroad -a -i -M | dot -Tpng > doc/models.png’ it doesn’t work, I get this:

/Users/rodrigoruiz/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3/gems/railroad-0.5.0/lib/railroad/app_diagram.rb:54:in `disable_stdout’: uninitialized constant AppDiagram::PLATFORM (NameError)

from /Users/rodrigoruiz/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3/gems/railroad-0.5.0/lib/railroad/app_diagram.rb:72:in `load_environment'

from /Users/rodrigoruiz/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3/gems/railroad-0.5.0/lib/railroad/app_diagram.rb:18:in `initialize'

from /Users/rodrigoruiz/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3/gems/railroad-0.5.0/lib/railroad/models_diagram.rb:14:in `initialize'

from /Users/rodrigoruiz/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3/gems/railroad-0.5.0/bin/railroad:36:in `new'

from /Users/rodrigoruiz/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3/gems/railroad-0.5.0/bin/railroad:36:in `<top (required)>'

from /Users/rodrigoruiz/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3/bin/railroad:19:in `load'

from /Users/rodrigoruiz/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3/bin/railroad:19:in `<main>'
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Ya, actually I do need a class diagram for controllers and models.

How can I use that railroady?

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do you install the graphviz? is needed for generate the diagrams, linux or mac your OS?

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other mode for generate models in rails is http://rails-erd.rubyforge.org/, very simple and require too graphviz, much easer

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Ya, but I need both, models and controllers diagram, and yes I did install graphviz (manually though, not through command line)

and I did manage to generate the controllers and models with their methods, but not instance variable or inheritance connections.