How to auto-document the end-to-end code and data flows of your Rails app

In case you missed it, I’m recapping my recent RailsConf 2021 talk in a series of four, short blog posts. Check out Part 1 - We need a better way to communicate and explain our code decisions.This post recaps the first of the demos I gave as part of my talk. Using AppMap, I walked RailsConf attendees through how to automatically generate documentation and visualizations for end-to-end flows -- right in your code editor.End-to-end flows help us as developers get the right context. They help us figure out how a given web request uses particular database tables, for example, and they help us find important functions performed by code, such as authentication, authorization, and emailing.