2.0 idea - mountable JS/SVG graphs

[kerrizor]

WHAT IF.. in addition to a command line artifact generator, we had a development env only route that would generate a clickable JS/SVG graph in the browser?

[scarroll32]

What about outputting in Mermaid markdown format? 🤔

[unchidev]

I just thought the same thing myself. And I made an experimental prototype of it.

rails-mermaid-erd https://github.com/koedame/rails-mermaid_erd

Mermaid is excellent and has already produced something very good as an experience. As for me, I would be very happy if rails-erd goes in this direction.

[ayuto-takasaki-LITALICO]

Thank you very much for implementing support for mermaid notation. https://github.com/voormedia/rails-erd/pull/405

I have tried to use it, but I found one problem. When I use the only option in .erdconfig to limit the models to be output, the relationship line is drawn for models that are not included in the output.

only: Model1,Model2

After some investigation, I found that the problem can be fixed by defining the following method in lib/rails_erd/diagram/mermaid.rb and adding a condition in each_relationship.

      def node_exists?(name)
        # I'm not sure if this is the proper way to judge, but it works as long as you don't use a weird model name.
        graph.include?("\tclass `#{name}`")
      end

      each_relationship do |relationship|
        from, to = relationship.source, relationship.destination
        next unless node_exists?(from) && node_exists?(to)

        graph << "\t`#{from.name}` #{relation_arrow(relationship)} `#{to.name}`"

        from.children.each do |child|
          next unless node_exists?(child)

          graph << "\t`#{child.name}` #{relation_arrow(relationship)} `#{to.name}`"
        end

        to.children.each do |child|
          next unless node_exists?(child)

          graph << "\t`#{from.name}` #{relation_arrow(relationship)} `#{child.name}`"
        end
      end

I'm not sure how to implement the node_exists? method in a cool way, so I'll just leave it as a comment on the issue.

Thanks for maintaining a great gem.

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