I tried to build a ruby-based website. but I want to start on blogspot which is free for beginners. can the ruby system be placed on blogspot, I am very happy if this happens.
No Blogspot does not support ruby on rails. Even it is just a blogging platform where you already have CMS to serve you. But you should have a development environment. Please try Heroku.com if you want free.
check this tutorial https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-rails5 to launch your first application on Heroku.
You can add the following lines after
rails generate controller welcome
rails generate scaffold product name 'price:decimal{7,2}'
rails db:migrate
This will create a sample application where you can do all CRUD operation on product. you can try following
rails s
Now visit localhost:3000/products
After installation on Heroku you will get your url where you can run app and do all CRUD operation. Just try it is very easy to do.
If you are working with Ruby on Rails, consider to work with another platform like Wordpress instead. But I think it takes time.
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I am a beginner in this whole thing. I have previously used Sublime for HTML and CSS practice. Now I want to work on a website using Ruby, but do not know how to set up Sublime for rails, since every tutorial for Ruby has those files in the left side of the Sublime window, like App directory and similar generated somehow. I would not like to work blindfolded. I have tried to find a way to generate those directories, but did not find any step by step instructions. Which are welcomed in this case. I would appreciate those, or if there is a link to some detailed tutorial on how to do that. Thanks in advance for any help!
There is a blog that I hope it would help you in your case.
Here it is: Setting up Sublime Text 3 for Rails Development
The directories you're talking about (app, config, etc.) aren't generated by SublimeText; they're generated by Rails when you create a new application with rails new at the command line.
Once you've created the application, you can open the top-level directory in SublimeText, and you'll see all the directories in your sidebar. For example, if you keep your apps in a directory called my_app, and you want to create a Rails app called new_app, you can do this from your terminal:
cd my_apps
rails new new_app
subl new_app
And you should see something like this:
For more on how to get started with Rails, I'd recommend Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial.
I am working with rails-api so each time i change controller or Route file i want to auto reload rails server, so new changes will be applied.
I got basic setup to work with this plugin: link, where rails start together with grunt.
The problem is i want to reload rails server each time any rails files are changed.
Is it possible to achieve?
Yes, of course. You will need to use Guard for this purpose. Please read carefully Guards official page. They're doing good job in explaining how to setup your development environment.
There are tutorials on RailsCasts and also on NetTuts.
Edit: I forgot to mention that there is second(but definitely not the last one) option to achieve this. If you start using Spring which is Rails application preloader. Read more about this on Github page.
Here is great tutorial on how to setup everything together - http://girders.org/blog/2014/02/06/setup-rails-41-spring-rspec-and-guard/
Ok, long time php guy doing my best to pick up ruby on rails by developing a small website for myself using only ror instead of php.
However i'm a bit stuck, and i think it is because i'm not exactly understanding how rails actually works.
I am running centos 5.5 / apache2. I have successfully installed ruby, rubygems, and subsequently rails and passenger. All these are 'working', i can run ruby commands, gem commands etc.
But how do I start using rails on my website? If I create an .erb or .rb file with some simple ruby commands, it just displays as plain text when I navigate to it.
Do I need to configure apache to 'execute' .rb or .erb files (similar to the way .php files execute?).
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!
You might check out the Rails Getting Started Guide: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
I suggest you read a huge tutorial on this topic: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html.
Ruby is the language, and Ruby on Rails is a framework. From the guide:
Rails is a web application development
framework written in the Ruby
language. It is designed to make
programming web applications easier by
making assumptions about what every
developer needs to get started. It
allows you to write less code while
accomplishing more than many other
languages and frameworks. Experienced
Rails developers also report that it
makes web application development more
fun.
I'd read Chapter 4, if you already know all this, as it talks about the actual webserver.
Rails comes with it's own webserver, so Apache isn't needed.
Sounds like you need to really get a handle on Rails and what it is first. This site has some great information for beginners, and should help you understand what you are working with and your next steps to get an application running:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
I've also heard some good things about the information here:
http://railsforzombies.org/
Check out Ruby on Rails Tutorial for getting started in Rails.
As #Blender mentioned, rails comes with an in build web server called webrick. (Think of it same as apache .. for now)
so all you have to do is go to the rails project directory, and run the command
if you are using rails < 3.x
ruby script/server
if you are using rails > 3.x
rails server
once u done this your rails project will start in webrick server and by default in port 3000
http://localhost:3000
you may consider apache/ some other rails server setup for production deployment, but to get started you dont need apache at all
and welcome to ruby world ! :D
HTH
sameera
I'm a designer and brand new to programming.
I have just opened my localhost and can see "Welcome aboard". It has 3 steps to complete - all of which simple to most, are complexing to me.
config/database.yml ok it wants to know my username and password. Where do I get these and where do I post them to to get them to work? I opened my database.yml and it is
SQLite version 3.x
gem install sqlite3-ruby
I hear people talking about git and all this but confused on how to do these 3 steps -
1.
Create your databases and edit config/database.yml
Rails needs to know your login and password.
2.
Use script/generate to create your models and controllers
To see all available options, run it without parameters.
3.
Set up a default route and remove or rename this file
Routes are set up in config/routes.rb.
Is this just too over my head? I wouldn't mind hiring someone to teach get it all going for me because I really want to learn to code Ruby on Rails.
Thanks!
Note - All resolved by deleting and reinstalling. Now I understand what is actually happening.
Since you're using an SQLite database, you don't need to configure any username or password to get going with the database -- the default configuration should work out of the box and creates a new database file automatically for you.
For your other questions, the Getting Started with Rails guide over at guides.rubyonrails.org is an excellent introduction that walks you through all the steps in creating a new Rails application. Start by going through this tutorial step by step -- if you get stuck somewhere along the way you can always come back here and post follow-up questions.
If you don't have any idea what a database is you should just leave database.yml alone and use the provided defaults (use sqlite, does not require a password/login). For getting started with Rails, this should be enough. Just delete the public/index.html file.
I would really recommend you to buy a book (Rails 3) (3rd edition is for Rails 2.3) which guides you through the creation of a Rails app - with a lot of examples. The guides are an alternative, but also might be a little difficult to read with close-to-none preknowledge of programming.
I think you might find Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial helpful. It's available for purchase as a PDF or you can view the online version for free. It covers all the major steps of developing a Rails application, including using Git.
I'm trying to understand what exactly the above (in my question's Title) means? This is taken directly from the SpreeCommerce.com project:
If you’re an experienced Rails developer you may be wondering where your app directory is. Spree actually runs as an embedded Rails app inside of your gem. How do you customize things then? We’ll cover that later in extensions.
Source: http://spreecommerce.com/documentation/getting_started.html
Can someone further explain what exactly it means when a Rails app is run "inside of your gem"
With the gem spree, you can install your application and use it. A lot of application need download complete package to install it. When the gem spree, you don't. So it's more easier to install spree on your server.
The phrase you quote is poorly written and not particularly useful. What you should take away is that Spree is structured different from the majority of Rails plugins.
Typical plugin:
your rails app <-- plugin functionality
A Spree app:
spree rails app <-- your site specific code
Typically, most Rails plugins are installed in the vendor/plugins directory of your Rails app. Some additional functionality is added by classes and modules that you can then reference in your code (subclassing a ResourceController, for instance).
Spree does not work in this way. Because, presumably, there is so much configuration code for Spree, each Spree instance creates a separate Rails app -- one that's missing some of the more important parts of a Rails app (such as the app directory). All of your site specific code goes in the vendor/extensions/site directory. This means you don't have to worry about editing any of the Spree-specific code (since it's all in a different directory) and you can more easily put your own code under source control.