1. Installation
1.1 Installing Rails
In this tutorial, I’ll be using WEBrick as the webserver (comes with Rails, so don’t worry if that didn’t ring a bell) and the MySQL database. In order to be able to build the application, you will need a few software packages. If you are using the Debian Linux distribution, you can visit the Rails On Debian page on the official Ruby on Rails website for informations on which packages you need to install to be up and running. If you are using another distribution or another operating system such as Windows or MacOS, you’ll need to download Ruby’s bindings to MySQL. Then, you’ll want to actually install Rails, to do so, you can visit the page Gem Rails to know how to install the needed packages with Ruby’s package manager, RubyGems. If you run into any problems for installation, you can go to the #rubyonrails IRC channel on the FreeNode network to get further help.