12. Introduction to Ruby on Rails II

Activity 12.01: Create a Blog Application and Host It Live on a Cloud Platform

Solution

Part I – Create a blog application with the following features

1. Create a new application and run the following command from Terminal:

   $ rails new blog

   The output should be as follows:

   Figure 12.28: Initializing a new application

2. Go into the blog directory and run the following scaffolding command from Terminal to generate MVC files and a folder structure for post:

   $ cd blog 
   $ rails generate scaffold post title:string body:text

   The output should be as follows:

   

   Figure 12.29: Using scaffolding to create files and a folder structure

3. The scaffold command creates a lot of files and folder structures, essentially creating all the files required for CRUD operations. It has a model, a controller, migration, and views all generated in one go. Scaffolding is very powerful syntactic sugar, doing a lot of repetitive tasks quickly and saving time.
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