Ruby Rail First Step

• Your first application with MySQL

rails new firstapp -d mysql

1. Move into the application directory

cd firstapp

1. If you setup MySQL or Postgres with a username/password, modify the
2. config/database.yml file to contain the username/password that you specified

1. Create the database

rake db:create

1. Start the server

rails server

1. Visite the web site

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1. change the default page

Add the following into config/routes.rb

root :to => "home#index"

1. Generate a ressource

rails generate scaffold Post name:string title:string content:text

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