11.3. Writing your application

Procedure

1. Run Rails generator:

   $ rails generate controller welcome index

   All the necessary files are created.

2. edit line 2 in config/routes.rb file as follows:

   root 'welcome#index'

3. Run the rails server to verify the page is available:

   $ rails server

   You should see your page by visiting http://localhost:3000 in your browser. If you do not see the page, check the logs that are output to your server to debug.

Procedure

1. Make sure you are in your Rails application directory by running the ls -1 command. The output of the command should look like:

   $ ls -1

   Example output

   app
   bin
   config
   config.ru
   db
   Gemfile
   Gemfile.lock
   lib
   log
   public
   Rakefile
   README.rdoc
   test
   tmp
   vendor

2. Run the following commands in your Rails app directory to initialize and commit your code to git:

   $ git init

   $ git add .

   $ git commit -m "initial commit"

   After your application is committed you must push it to a remote repository. GitHub account, in which you create a new repository.

3. Set the remote that points to your git repository:

   $ git remote add origin git@github.com:<namespace/repository-name>.git

4. Push your application to your remote git repository.

   $ git push