Archimate
I also have included some Ruby code that plays with the .archimate
file format produces by Archi to produce useful output.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'archimate'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install archimate
Usage
archimate
The example scripts are (some are planned):
command | description |
---|---|
archimate help [COMMAND] |
Describe available commands or one specific command |
archimate convert ARCHIFILE |
Convert the incoming file to the desired type |
archimate dedupe ARCHIFILE |
de-duplicate elements in Archi file |
archimate map ARCHIFILE |
EXPERIMENTAL: Produce a map of diagram links to a diagram |
archimate merge ARCHIFILE1 ARCHIFILE2 |
*EXPERIMENTAL:*Merge two archimate files |
archimate project ARCHIFILE PROJECTFILE |
*EXPERIMENTAL:*Synchronize an Archi file and an MSProject XML file |
archimate svg ARCHIFILE |
Produce semantically meaningful SVG files from an Archi file |
archimate lint ARCHIFILE |
Produce a report of warnings and issues in the Archi file |
archidiff & archimerge
Archidiff is a set of tools to help with versioning an .archimate
file from Archi in a version control system (like git). Eventually I want to provide diff and (3-way) merge tools that understand how Archi files are structured and avoid problems that happen when multiple people collaborate on a model.
To enable using these from the command line git, add these lines to your ~/.gitconfig
replacing {PATH_TO_ARCHIDIFF}
with the path to the archidiff binaries.
[difftool "archidiff"]
cmd = {PATH_TO_ARCHIDIFF}/archidiff $LOCAL $REMOTE
[difftool "archidiff-summary"]
cmd = {PATH_TO_ARCHIDIFF}/archidiff-summary $LOCAL $REMOTE
[mergetool "archimerge"]
cmd = {PATH_TO_ARCHIDIFF}/archimerge $PWD/$BASE $PWD/$REMOTE $PWD/$LOCAL $PWD/$MERGED
trustExitCode = false
Then to use the tool for diffing you can do this:
git difftool --tool archidiff 833cbb7 HEAD -- path_to/my.archimate
or to see a summary of what changed between versions:
git difftool --tool archidiff-summary 833cbb7 HEAD -- path_to/my.archimate
Finally, if you have a merge conflict, you can use archimerge to help make the merge sane:
git mergetool --tool archimerge -- path_to/my.archimate
fmtxml
Can be used as a textconv
filter in .gitconfig to pre-format files for better diff use (for visual scanning). You'd set this up in your $HOME/.gitconfig
file like this.
[diff "archimate"]
textconv = fmtxml
cachetextconv = true
Development
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup
to install dependencies. Then, run rake test
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/mmorga/archimate-diff.