My first experience with Ruby on Rails

It's a new year, so I decided to learn a new language / environment. I chose Ruby on Rails,so here comes my experience.

I am following the tutorial at: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/12/14/revisiting-ruby-on-rails-revisited.html, which has been written for Rails 1.2.6. My environment thou is Rails 2.0. So, here are the steps I followed:

• cd ~/Rails
• rails cookbook2
• cd cookbook2
  
• rake db:create:all
  
• ./script/generate scaffold Category name:string
• rake db:migrate
• ./script/server

Then point your browser to http://localhost:30000. It shows the RoR welcome page.

• Go to file config/routes.rb and file the following line:
  

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.root :controller=> 'categories'
map.resources :categories

Now point your browser to http://localhost:3000/categories, and you are ready to create categories!

Creating the recipe table

• ./script/generate scaffold Recipe category:references title:string description:string instructions:text
• rake db:migrate

Now point your browser to http://localhost:3000/recipes and you're ready to create recipes!