Learn Rails 5.2: Accelerated Web Development with Ruby on Rails

© Stefan Wintermeyer 2018

Stefan WintermeyerLearn Rails 5.2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3489-1_2

2. First Steps with Rails

Stefan Wintermeyer¹ 

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Bochum, Germany

 

Now that you have painstakingly read your way through the basics of Ruby in Chapter 1, you can move on to a more exciting topic. In this chapter, you will create your first small Ruby on Rails project.

Environment (Development)

By default a Rails project offers three environments to work in.

• Development

• Test

• Production

In this chapter, you will be working only with the Development environment. Once you have gained a better feeling for Rails, you will start using tests, and then you will need the corresponding environment (where, for example, the test database is populated when you start ...