Re: Arti - mechanized docs for Rails

Charles Oliver Nutter <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:25:50 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Rich Morin wrote:
> I've done some enhancements and bug fixes.  Probably
> the most interesting part, at this point, is Arti's
> ability to crawl through the app's file tree, based
> on a set of rules:
> 
> http://mephisto-ar.cfcl.com/arti/rules
> 
> and generate image-mapped diagrams that show which
> files use which others in responding to a request:
> 
> http://mephisto-ar.cfcl.com/arti/plots?name=cv_admin__articlesXedit
> 
> Anyway, still hoping for some feedback.

Looks pretty cool to me, and would be useful for lots of things...

- determining orphaned pages/actions
- exploring/reducing app complexity
- getting new devs up to speed on existing apps

Fun stuff :)

- Charlie