Johann Reyes jreyes

Create Nice-looking Schema Diagrams in PlantUML

PlantUML is a descriptive language to generate a number of types of software diagrams, such as sequence, class, deployment and state diagrams, and many others. PlantUML does not generate very good-looking schema diagrams out of the box, but it supports themes and preprocessed macros. If you use themes and macros, you can not only use a simplified syntax, but also generate beautiful diagrams.

Here is an example of a PlantUML schema diagram, and we will build up the code to generate it.

To start, describe your schemas, tables and columns using this syntax as an example.

	#!/bin/bash
	# from here: http://www.codingsteps.com/install-redis-2-6-on-amazon-ec2-linux-ami-or-centos/
	# and here: https://raw.github.com/gist/257849/9f1e627e0b7dbe68882fa2b7bdb1b2b263522004/redis-server
	###############################################
	# To use:
	# wget https://gist.github.com/jreyes/5993810/raw/496a4991a528af1d56e9e984d5034cc8199f37fd/install-redis.sh
	# chmod 777 install-redis.sh
	# ./install-redis.sh
	###############################################
	echo "*****************************************"

	#!/bin/bash --debugger
	set -e

	BRANCH="master"
	if grep -q BCM2708 /proc/cpuinfo; then
	echo "RPI BUILD!"
	RPI="1"
	fi

	[ -n "$1" ] && BRANCH=$1