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Tips

Thanks for coming to RailsBridge!!

If you have any questions at any time, feel free to email us at
alex [dot] nisnevich [at] gmail [dot] com
markmillan [at] gmail.com
lindseysugino [at] gmail.om

Resources
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Rails:
- http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book [also available as a book]
- http://railsforzombies.org/
- http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
- http://railscasts.com/

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript:
- http://docs.railsbridge.org/frontend/

Ruby, JavaScript, and Python:
- www.codecademy.com

git:
- http://try.github.io/
- http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/

And of course:
- www.stackoverflow.com

Bootcamps and events:
- http://bootcamps.in/
- http://www.meetup.com/sfruby/

Useful commands
===============

cd <directory> - move to directory
ls - list contents of directory
mkdir <directory> - create new directory

To create new rails application:
	rails new <applicationName>

To run rails server:
	rails server
(Ctrl-C to exit)
And go to localhost:3000 in your browser.

To run rails console:
	rails console
(Ctrl-C to exit, or Ctrl-D if Ctrl-C doesn't work)

To initialize git and heroku:
	git init
	heroku create

To generate rails scaffolds:
	rails generate scaffold <table> <field>:<type> <field>:<type> (etc.)
For example,
	rails generate scaffold topic title:string description:text
Then to update the database, run:
	rake db:migrate

To update heroku site:
	git add .
	git commit -m "<message>"
	git push heroku master
And if you updated the database, also run:
	heroku exec rake db:migrate

To open heroku site:
	heroku open

Useful paths
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app/assets/ <--- CSS and javascript goes here (images should technically go here too, but heroku is weird about it)
app/controllers/ <--- controllers go here
app/models/ <--- models go here
app/views/ <--- views go here (different folder for each controller)
config/routes.rb <--- this file determines which URLs go to which controllers and actions
Gemfile <--- your application's gems (libraries) go here