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Scripting Sequence Diagrams

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Date: 2012-01-24

Getting up to speed at a project at work has been difficult. I was transitioning from an Administrative job and more project-oriented work to being a full-time Software Develop. The company I was joining was implementing Scrum. I came to find out I arrived slightly before a major restructuring of the Development group. When teams were announced, I was thrilled to learn I was going to be working on the Citizen Participation and Training products that the company offers.

My team was smallest, at 3 team members. All 3 of us were new to company, being hired less than 6 months ago from the project start date. The product lacked coherent documentation, which resulted in a lack of clarity amongst the Development group. Product vision was not as focused as it could be, and I thought it'd be beneficial to develop project blueprints, primarily in the form of visual UML diagrams. So, I wanted to experiment with generating Sequence Diagrams from Ruby.

Classes (across the page as vertical bars, with a Title, a Spine, and Instances) Interactions (line with end arrows drawn between classes (Source, Destination) with an optional Text description above the line) Optional: X to indicate an objects demise.

In Rails, this would start with Routes.rb.
Is the Stack already being stored somewhere? Terminal? Can it be accessed?

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