Ruby on Rails : Useful Commands

Ruby on Rails : Useful Commands

Ruby on Rails Useful Commands

//Make sure you have ruby installed to be able to run these commands

gem install rails 		--------		This installs rails for you

gem install rails-api 		--------		This installs rails api gem for creating a restful api oriented app

rails new appName		--------		Creates a new rails application in the 
folder with the same name as the app

rails new appName	-d postgresql	--------		Creates a new rails application in the 
folder with the same name as the app but with a parameter specifying the database type to use

rails g/generate scaffold thing thingAttribute1(type defaults to string) thingAttribute2:type(e.g. text,number) 	--------	Scaffolds a new type of thing in your application(make sure you cd into your app root directory)

rake db:create 	--------	Scans your database.yml file and creates the databases listed there

rake db:migrate 	--------	Creates the tables and columns after you've done a scaffold

rails s/server 		--------	Starts a new rails server ready to serve html files for your new app

bundle install 		--------	Installs the packages/bundles in you Gemfile