Setting Up Your Development Environment
The day-to-day business of writing Rails programs is pretty straightforward. Everyone works differently; here’s how we work.
The Command Line
We do a lot of work at the command line. Although an increasing number of GUI tools help generate and manage a Rails application, we find the command line is still the most powerful place to be. It’s worth spending a little while getting familiar with the command line on your operating system. Find out how to use it to edit commands that you’re typing, how to search for and edit previous commands, and how to complete the names of files and commands as you type.
So-called tab completion is standard on Unix shells such as Bash and Zsh. It allows you to type the ...
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