I have been building up my software in ruby, and now have a number of related classes defined. However, I am finding that connecting them together into a whole is difficult. I can manage the individual connections, but basically I losing my grip on the overall structure. I know there are diagramming techniques like UML, but, because I am changing code as I learn more, I wonder if there is something more dynamic. The analysis of this sort of thing seems to be called "sotware architecture", and it looks a fairly new area. There has been talk on the list of Ruby replacing UML to some extent. So if people are using tools to help them with this, what sort of things are they using? Thank you, Hugh hgs / dmu.ac.uk