GemDependenciesVisualizer

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'gem_dependencies_visualizer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install gem_dependencies_visualizer

Usage

To produce a graph of your gem dependencies, pass the content of a Gemfile.lock as is as an input to the visualizer. You can (optionaly) pass a graph name you might want to give to the .png file to be produced.

To use it just run the following in your code:

GemDependenciesVisualizer.produce_gems_graph(gemfile_lock_string, graph_name)

For example by using the produced Gemfile.lock in this gem, we can get the following:

Sample produced graph

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/arcanoid/gem_dependencies_visualizer. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.