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diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index ceba2c65aa..54200768e6 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This guide covers getting up and running with Ruby on Rails. After reading this guide, you will know: -* Installing Rails, creating a new Rails application, and connecting your +* How to install Rails, create a new Rails application, and connect your application to a database. * The general layout of a Rails application. * The basic principles of MVC (Model, View, Controller) and RESTful design. @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ TIP: The examples below use # and $ to denote superuser and regular user termina Open up a command line prompt. On Mac OS X open Terminal.app, on Windows choose "Run" from your Start menu and type 'cmd.exe'. Any commands prefaced with a -dollar sign `$` should be run in the command line. Verify sure you have a +dollar sign `$` should be run in the command line. Verify that you have a current version of Ruby installed: ```bash @@ -101,11 +101,11 @@ To verify that you have everything installed correctly, you should be able to ru $ rails --version ``` -If it says something like "Rails 3.2.9" you are ready to continue. +If it says something like "Rails 3.2.9", you are ready to continue. ### Creating the Blog Application -Rails comes with a number of generators that are designed to make your development life easier. One of these is the new application generator, which will provide you with the foundation of a Rails application so that you don't have to write it yourself. +Rails comes with a number of scripts called generators that are designed to make your development life easier by creating everything that's necessary to start working on a particular task. One of these is the new application generator, which will provide you with the foundation of a fresh Rails application so that you don't have to write it yourself. To use this generator, open a terminal, navigate to a directory where you have rights to create files, and type: @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ invoking the command: `rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production`. ### Saving data in the controller Back in `posts_controller`, we need to change the `create` action -to use the new `Post` model to save the data in the database. Open that file +to use the new `Post` model to save the data in the database. Open `app/controllers/posts_controller.rb` and change the `create` action to look like this: ```ruby @@ -558,8 +558,8 @@ parameter, which in our case will be the id of the post. Note that this time we had to specify the actual mapping, `posts#show` because otherwise Rails would not know which action to render. -As we did before, we need to add the `show` action in the -`posts_controller` and its respective view. +As we did before, we need to add the `show` action in +`app/controllers/posts_controller.rb` and its respective view. ```ruby def show @@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ This command will generate four files: | test/models/comment_test.rb | Testing harness for the comments model | | test/fixtures/comments.yml | Sample comments for use in testing | -First, take a look at `comment.rb`: +First, take a look at `app/models/comment.rb`: ```ruby class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base @@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ this way: * One post can have many comments. In fact, this is very close to the syntax that Rails uses to declare this -association. You've already seen the line of code inside the `Comment` model that +association. You've already seen the line of code inside the `Comment` model (app/models/comment.rb) that makes each comment belong to a Post: ```ruby @@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base end ``` -You'll need to edit the `post.rb` file to add the other side of the association: +You'll need to edit `app/models/post.rb` to add the other side of the association: ```ruby class Post < ActiveRecord::Base @@ -1350,7 +1350,7 @@ the post show page to see their comment now listed. Due to this, our spam comments when they arrive. So first, we'll wire up the Post show template -(`/app/views/posts/show.html.erb`) to let us make a new comment: +(`app/views/posts/show.html.erb`) to let us make a new comment: ```html+erb <p> @@ -1609,7 +1609,7 @@ So first, let's add the delete link in the Clicking this new "Destroy Comment" link will fire off a `DELETE /posts/:post_id/comments/:id` to our `CommentsController`, which can then use this to find the comment we want to delete, so let's add a destroy action to our -controller: +controller (`app/controllers/comments_controller.rb`): ```ruby class CommentsController < ApplicationController @@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ action if that method allows it. To use the authentication system, we specify it at the top of our `PostsController`, in this case, we want the user to be authenticated on every -action, except for `index` and `show`, so we write that: +action, except for `index` and `show`, so we write that in `app/controllers/posts_controller.rb`: ```ruby class PostsController < ApplicationController @@ -1682,7 +1682,7 @@ class PostsController < ApplicationController ``` We also only want to allow authenticated users to delete comments, so in the -`CommentsController` we write: +`CommentsController` (`app/controllers/comments_controller.rb`) we write: ```ruby class CommentsController < ApplicationController |