RailsSchool Starter App

This is provided as a quick way to get up and running with rails. In the future, you'll probably want to explore rails new and setup your favorite gem dependencies in the Gemfile.

Pre-Requisites

We're assuming that you have ruby installed. If you don't have it installed on your machine, see How Should I prepare for my first Ruby lesson?

You can also create a free nitrous.io instance and follow these same instructions. The only difference is that you won't be going to localhost to view the site, but rather you'll have to click Preview and choose to share on port 3000.

Setting Up

Getting the codebase

With Git

If you've set up git, then simply clone the repository:

bash$ git clone https://github.com/rails-school/starter.git

Without Git

If you haven't setup git, or don't know what that is, you can download the starter app zip file and then unzip it into a place that will be easy to get to (like your home directory, or a subdirectory off of your home directory).

Running for the first time

1. Open up a terminal and navigate to where you installed the codebase. For example,

   bash$ cd ~/starter

2. Install all the dependencies listed in the Gemfile

   bash$ bundle install

3. Create the initial database

   bash$ rake db:create
   bash$ rake db:migrate

4. Launch the server

   bash$ rails server

5. If everything went well, navigate to localhost:3000