ANN: Arti 0.1.1 - mechanized documentation for Rails

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I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.1.1 of Arti,
a toolkit for mechanized documentation for Rails. Arti can be
used in either “merged” or “remote” mode. In either case, it
analyzes the source code of a Rails application, generating:

  • pretty-printed source code listings

  • Graphviz-based diagrams of file usage

  • RDoc-based documentation pages

  • statistics on lines of code, etc.

The results are then made available as Rails pages. Although
it’s very early days for this project, I think that it shows
promise. So, I’m looking for candidates of target Rails apps,
and folks who are willing to download and try it out.

To get a quick look at Arti’s capabilities, visit

http://mephisto-ar.cfcl.com

which uses Arti on a copy of the Mephisto weblog engine. To
get a quick look at Arti’s own code and organization, see

http://arti-ar.cfcl.com

which uses Arti on itself!

Finally, the main Arti URL is

http://www.cfcl.com/cfcl/rdm/Arti

-r

http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich M.
http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume [email protected]
http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841

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