Hello, Rails!
We can’t help it—we just have to write a Hello, World! program to try a new system. Let’s start by creating a simple application that sends our cheery greeting to a browser. After we get that working, we’ll embellish it with the current time and links.
As you’ll explore further in Chapter 3, The Architecture of Rails Applications, Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework. Rails accepts incoming requests from a browser, decodes the request to find a controller, and calls an action method in that controller. The controller then invokes a particular view to display the results to the user. The good news is that Rails takes care of most of the internal plumbing that links all these actions. To write our Hello, World! application, ...
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