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authorBradly Feeley <bradlyf@gmail.com>2013-08-03 15:35:08 -0700
committerBradly Feeley <bradlyf@gmail.com>2013-08-03 16:31:23 -0700
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Add note that you must be in the rails app directory when starting up the server.
This is a response to issue #11731 and is a common mistake for people newer to rails that try forget to cd into the new rails app after running rails new.
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### Starting up the Web Server
-You actually have a functional Rails application already. To see it, you need to start a web server on your development machine. You can do this by running:
+You actually have a functional Rails application already. To see it, you need to start a web server on your development machine. You can do this by running the following in the root directory of your rails app:
```bash
$ rails server