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I'm trying to figure out if there are any applications (SaaS or otherwise) that offer a basic graphical user interface for building out all the necessary scaffolding of a Rails or Node.js app from a flow-chart type of interface?

I remember Visual Studio had something like this for building database structures...why wouldn't there be something that does this for Rails or Node.js?

octopusbones
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RailsModels purports to do this, but I find the interface is quite cumbersome.

If you just want to generate the diagrams from existing models for visualization, RailRoad and RubyMine Data Sources Tool can do this. But, neither offer a method for generating models from the GUI.

You are thinking of the Entity Model Designer (or possibly the older dataset designer), and I do not know of any Rails tools that offer similar functionality. As to why, I am not sure. I could comment, but it would be a guess, and probably be flamebait.

Kyeotic
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  • I'm pretty sure I'll be marking this as the correct answer, but I'll hold out a bit to see if anyone has a better suggestion first. I would use RailsModels more if it didn't throw errors so often. But yeah, that's exactly what I'm looking for! – octopusbones Aug 30 '12 at 08:20
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https://github.com/preston/railroady

RailRoady, i believe its only > Rails 3 though...

David Morrow
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  • Hey David, RailRoady looks promising for drawing diagrams of existing Models/Routes, but it doesn't allow you to construct them from a GUI like the Visual Studio table designer does. However, I just found out that RubyMine offers something similar to this in its Model Dependency Viewer. You can create Models and relate them from a GUI. Thanks for your input though! – octopusbones Aug 30 '12 at 19:01