Rails makes doing common tasks relatively easy, however it can add a level of complexity. Rails adds relationships and dependencies that are not obvious through the use of conventions, meta-programming and naming patterns. The Dependencies View helps reduce the complexity by keeping a dynamic view of class and logical relationships.
While you navigate source code or nodes in the Rails Explorer, you can use the Dependencies View to track focus and show the dependencies (class, method, controller, action, view, attributes). The Dependencies View shows references to and from (inbound and outbound) a selected class or method.
The Dependencies View is a very useful tool for navigating and introspecting software. Relationships are determined by type inference and semantic analysis. Dependencies are updated in real-time during editing and navigation. Relationships, between controllers, actions, views, models, helpers, routes, migrations, schema and tests are related and determined by convention and method call analysis.
