Testing Out the Web Client

With the X10 computer interface working and plugged into the serial port of the computer, fire up a development server of the Rails 3 code via this:

 
> cd ~/projects/ruby/rails/homprojects/x10switch
 
> rails s
 
 
=> Booting WEBrick
 
=> Rails 3.0.5 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
 
=> Call with -d to detach
 
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
 
[2011-03-18 16:49:31] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
 
[2011-03-18 16:49:31] INFO ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12) [universal-darwin10.0]
 
[2011-03-18 16:49:31] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=10313 port=3000

Open a web browser on the local machine and enter the following:

http://localhost:3000/command/on

If everything is coded correctly, you should see The light should ...

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