Your first Ruby on Rails Application

The following is an example of how to create a simple ruby on rails application, on a Ubuntu development machine, push it to GitHub source control, and to Heroku for cloud hosting.

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Here is the build of tools on my virtual machine:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Git v 1.7.9.5
• Rails v 3.2.3
• Sublime Text 2 Build 2195

Part 1
mkdir code
rails new app1
cd app1
rails g scaffold post title text:text
rake db:migrate

Part 2

subl Gemfile
[add the following to file]
group :production do
gem 'pg'
end
group :development, :test do
gem 'sqlite3'
end
gem install pg
bundle install
[create 'app1' repository at github.com]
git init
git add .
git commit -m "baseline"
git remote add origin git@github.com:stevenfowler/app1.git
git push -u origin master

Part 3

heroku create -s cedar
git push heroku master
heroku run rake db:migrate
heroku open