Opening file in /public with browser part of tutorial? - ruby-on-rails

In a tutorial I am following it tells me the following:
In the terminal you can run
$ ruby page_generator.rb
This will loop through all the files in the `views` directory, parse their erb and write the contents to the `public` directory.
Run the generator and drag a page from the `public` directory to your browser, it should render.
When I run the
$ ruby page_generator.rb
I get:
================================================
=== Converting files in /views to html =========
================================================
- Reading views/index.html.erb
- Converting .html.erb to html
- Writing public/index.html
- Reading views/me.html.erb
- Converting .html.erb to html
- Writing public/me.html
================================================
=== Done, open files in /public with browser ===
================================================
I am unsure what "open files in /public with browser" means? I've tried dragging, running the server(localhost), not sure what I'm supposed to do to get it to render on my browser? Any insight into what the tutorial is trying to tell me to do?

It should refer to the public/ folder located inside the root folder of your Rails application; try to look there

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When i say "script/server" from the project folder, everything is ok
After copying the project folder to another place, and saying "script/server", server starts, but jammit does't loads the packaged assets and i see the web page without any css and js files loaded.
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I refer to each asset in "assets.yml" in follwing way:
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