Getting started for Ruby on Rails

To download this repository open up a command line terminal and change first to the directory where you want to place the files.

Then type:

git clone https://github.com/RailsGirls54/gettingstarted.git

and change in the directory 'gettingstarted'.

Blog

The folder blog contains a simple RoR application that you can use as a starting point.

To get it up and running simply type following commands:

cd blog

rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=development

rails server

Go to your browser and type http://localhost:3000.

Ruby

This folder contains examples for both standard Ruby and embedded Ruby (erb).

First change to the directory:

cd ruby

To execute the Ruby code type:

ruby exercise.rb

To execute the embedded Ruby code type:

erb example.erb