Chapter 3. Getting started
Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
Virgil
In this iteration, we’ll start making some real headway in our application. By the end of it, we’ll have a good starting point for any Flex + Rails application, and the pomodo application in particular. We’ll start by freezing Rails and then installing and running restful_authentication, and then creating and running the migration to create users. Next, we’ll switch to the Flex side and get user creation and login functional. Finally, we’ll ensure that the minimal test suite passes.
This iteration is a bit of a long, hard slog—hence the opening quote. Please rest assured that the book gets a lot more fun after this iteration is over.
Note
The folders in the code zip file show the code at the end of each iteration. You can start at any iteration from 3–12 in this book by beginning with the code in the folder from the previous iteration; if you aren’t interested in following along with the early stuff but want to follow along starting with iteration 9, you should read iterations 1–8 and then start iteration 9 with the code from the iteration08 folder. You would rename the project from iteration08 to pomodo and import it using the same procedure as is shown next.