First Ruby on Rails (ROR)

Installation 


http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

Download ruby package
$ tar -xvzf ruby-1.9.1-p376.tar.gz
$ cd ruby-1.9.1-p376/
$ . /configure
$ make
$ make install

download rubygems
$ tar -xvzf rubygems-1.3.6.tgz
$ cd rubygems-1.3.6/

$ ruby setup.rb

$ gem install rails

Creating first project 

$ rails firstpro

Above step will create project with following dir structure

drwxr-xr-x 6 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 app

drwxr-xr-x 5 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 config

drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 db

drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 doc

drwxr-xr-x 3 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 lib

drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 log

drwxr-xr-x 3 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:46 nbproject

drwxr-xr-x 5 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 public

-rw-r--r-- 1 gt gt   307 2010-05-08 15:42 Rakefile

-rw-r--r-- 1 gt gt 10011 2010-05-08 15:42 README

drwxr-xr-x 3 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 script

drwxr-xr-x 7 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 test

drwxr-xr-x 6 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 tmp

drwxr-xr-x 3 gt gt  4096 2010-05-08 15:42 vendor

ROR works in MVC architecture put your files inside apps accordingly 

drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 controllers

drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 helpers

drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 models

drwxr-xr-x 3 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 views

use the script inside the script folder to perform rails operations 

rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt  159 2010-05-08 15:42 about

-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt  104 2010-05-08 15:42 console

-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt  106 2010-05-08 15:42 dbconsole

-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt  104 2010-05-08 15:42 destroy

-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt  105 2010-05-08 15:42 generate

drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 performance

-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt  103 2010-05-08 15:42 plugin

-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt  103 2010-05-08 15:42 runner

-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt  103 2010-05-08 15:42 server

To Run server 

$ script/server 

=> Booting WEBrick

=> Rails 2.3.5 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000

=> Call with -d to detach

=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server

[2010-05-08 15:43:20] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1

[2010-05-08 15:43:20] INFO  ruby 1.9.1 (2009-12-07) [i686-linux]

[2010-05-08 15:43:25] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=31445 port=3000

Check in your browser for the link below (Output)

http://localhost:3000

if you get ROR page then your ROR is working successfully else check the steps above 

Give a try :)

In my next post we can see how to create simple ROR application