Creating the Rails Application

With everything installed, I created my new rails app. From the command line:

C:\Ruby186>rails tenthhole
      create
      create  app/controllers
      create  app/helpers
      create  app/models
      create  app/views/layouts
      create  config/environments
      create  config/initializers
      create  config/locales
      create  db
      create  doc
      create  lib
      create  lib/tasks
      create  log
      create  public/images
      create  public/javascripts
      create  public/stylesheets
      create  script/performance
      create  test/fixtures
      create  test/functional
      create  test/integration
      create  test/performance
      create  test/unit
      create  vendor
      create  vendor/plugins
      create  tmp/sessions
      create  tmp/sockets
      create  tmp/cache
      create  tmp/pids
      create  Rakefile
      create  README
      create  app/controllers/application_controller.rb
      create  app/helpers/application_helper.rb
      create  config/database.yml
      create  config/routes.rb
      create  config/locales/en.yml
      create  db/seeds.rb
      create  config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb
      create  config/initializers/inflections.rb
      create  config/initializers/mime_types.rb
      create  config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb
      create  config/initializers/session_store.rb
      create  config/initializers/cookie_verification_secret.rb
      create  config/environment.rb
      create  config/boot.rb
      create  config/environments/production.rb
      create  config/environments/development.rb
      create  config/environments/test.rb
      create  script/about
      create  script/console
      create  script/dbconsole
      create  script/destroy
      create  script/generate
      create  script/runner
      create  script/server
      create  script/plugin
      create  script/performance/benchmarker
      create  script/performance/profiler
      create  test/test_helper.rb
      create  test/performance/browsing_test.rb
      create  public/404.html
      create  public/422.html
      create  public/500.html
      create  public/index.html
      create  public/favicon.ico
      create  public/robots.txt
      create  public/images/rails.png
      create  public/javascripts/prototype.js
      create  public/javascripts/effects.js
      create  public/javascripts/dragdrop.js
      create  public/javascripts/controls.js
      create  public/javascripts/application.js
      create  doc/README_FOR_APP
      create  log/server.log
      create  log/production.log
      create  log/development.log
      create  log/test.log

The syntax rails app_name tells rails to create the application with that name and set up all the directories and many of the files I will need. It puts them all in a directory with the apps name. With the basics of an app created, I’ll test it to make sure rails is working. I navigate to C:\Ruby186\tenthhole\ and type

C:\Ruby186\tenthhole>ruby script/server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.8 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
[2010-06-13 14:30:48] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2010-06-13 14:30:48] INFO  ruby 1.8.6 (2010-02-04) [i386-mingw32]
[2010-06-13 14:30:48] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=4984 port=3000
[2010-06-13 14:34:03] INFO  going to shutdown ...
[2010-06-13 14:34:03] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start done.

That starts the built-in web server that runs locally. In the third line from the bottom, I see that it’s using port 3000, so I open Firefox and navigate to http://localhost:3000 and see this:

That screen means rails installed correctly. Now I can start building my app. Back at the command line, I hit Control+C to exit the web server.

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