I have been away for a while, but I just wanted to share some of the things that I learned in the past month and in what I direction life is taking me at the moment.
Last month my friend needed an app made for a club and she asked me for some help. Immediately, I thought this could be the experience that I needed to get myself out there, so I decided I could help her. Earlier in the summer I was learning some Ruby on Rails and I thought I could make a web app to meet her needs. This will be some quick knowledge for those you that are interested in Ruby on Rails!
Since I am developing on a macbook pro I guess my small expertise on the subject would be on the Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). However, the setup should be different on each system, but in theory the actual Ruby on Rails should be the same! (for my later tutorials)
After writing an entire tutorial on installing Rails, I realized there were tons of tutorials that looked far better crafted for installing rails and I didn't want to repeat what the internet had to offer. Although they do help you install rails here, they want a subscription for teaching you Rails.
Well hopefully you have everything installed... Let's start by looking at what gems Rails offers you!
Fire up terminal and let's get into the Desktop:
cd ~/Desktop
Let's create your first Rails app (make something simple like a blog because that's how I'm learning!):
rails new Blog -d mysql
Make sure you add the mysql database, so that Rails can set that up for you without having to worry about it. You can use whatever database that you want!. (Note: You might have to download mysql with homebrew. If you need help on that just comment!)
You should get a lot of output from Rails that looks a bit like this:
My next post will explain a little bit about what Rails generated and see what you can do with it. If you have any questions about anything up to this point feel free to comment below. I'm doing this to document my progress and help others along the way!
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