Chapter 3. Developing a real Rails application
This chapter covers
- Using a Git client and GitHub for Version control
- Setting up and configuring a Rails application
- Writing our first application feature
- Creating a Project model
- Creating an interface for saving new projects
This chapter will get you started on building a Ruby on Rails application from scratch using the techniques covered in the previous chapter, plus a couple of new ones. With the techniques you learned in chapter 2, you can write features describing the behavior of the specific actions in your application and then implement the code you need to get the features passing.
For the remainder of the book, this application will be the main focus. We’ll guide you through it in an agile-like fashion. Agile focuses largely on iterative development: developing one feature at a time from start to finish, and then refining the feature until it’s viewed as complete before moving on to the next one.
Agile
You can find more information about agile on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development.