From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-05-04T19:46:17+09:00
Subject: Re: School teacher still at it learning programming language

Hilary Bailey wrote:
> Now I while glimpsing at the beauty of Ruby, there is the software of
> Rails. I downloaded it from from the c:\ using gem install rails, then
> typed in rails mydiary and got a whole lot of create ...... listing.
> NOW, how do I use Rails.

Rails is a web application framework. By typing "rails mydiary" you have 
created an empty application called "mydiary". If you cd into that 
directory, you can start it running (ruby script/server) and then point 
browser to http://127.0.0.1:3000/ to see it. But it won't be useful 
until you add your own behaviour to it.

For an old but still useful introduction see:
http://oreilly.com/ruby/archive/rails-revisited.html

Note that Rails is a big piece of software in its own right, which just 
happens to be written in Ruby. So if you have problems with any 
components of Rails (e.g. Rails scripts, classes, helper methods, 
controllers, views), you would be best off asking them on a Rails 
mailing list.

If you find even Rails doesn't do enough work for you out-of-the-box, 
have a look at http://hobocentral.net/. But you probably want to 
understand Rails first.
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