From: Gabriel Emerson <gemerson@...>
Date: 2003-01-15T03:55:21+09:00
Subject: Re: UML tool for Linux?

I use Dia, personally, but my boss writes our diagrams using Visual UML on
Windows.  It doesn't make much of a difference for just drawing diagrams;
they apply pretty well to any object oriented language, and never have had
a problem with UML and Ruby.

Of course, by modelling tool you may mean a design tool as well as code
generators which write your classes and necessary persistence mechanisms
and everything for you.  As far as I know this doesn't exist for Ruby.
There is a tool for Dia for generating code for other languages, perhaps
Ruby could be added to the list.

There is nothing out there like the Rational products for Ruby.  It isn't
possible at this point for example to have a database that can generate
UML which can then generate classes and then incorporate code changes back
into the UML.  C++ and Java programmers might sneer at Ruby for this, but
then, C++ and Java programmers probably need those things more than we do.

--Gabriel

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:47:42 +0900, Tim Bates wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good OO modelling (UML?) tool for Linux, that
> works well with the Ruby way of doing things? ie not one loaded with
> features specific to C++ or Java...
> 
> Tim Bates