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diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index b1ca8da292..02ec024e5b 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: @@ -215,11 +215,7 @@ Open the `app/views/welcome/index.html.erb` file in your text editor and edit it ### Setting the Application Home Page -Now that we have made the controller and view, we need to tell Rails when we want Hello Rails! to show up. In our case, we want it to show up when we navigate to the root URL of our site, <http://localhost:3000>. At the moment, however, the "Welcome Aboard" smoke test is occupying that spot. - -To fix this, delete the `index.html` file located inside the `public` directory of the application. - -You need to do this because Rails will serve any static file in the `public` directory that matches a route in preference to any dynamic content you generate from the controllers. The `index.html` file is special: it will be served if a request comes in at the root route, e.g. <http://localhost:3000>. If another request such as <http://localhost:3000/welcome> happened, a static file at `public/welcome.html` would be served first, but only if it existed. +Now that we have made the controller and view, we need to tell Rails when we want Hello Rails! to show up. In our case, we want it to show up when we navigate to the root URL of our site, <http://localhost:3000>. At the moment, "Welcome Aboard" is occupying that spot. Next, you have to tell Rails where your actual home page is located. @@ -233,7 +229,6 @@ Blog::Application.routes.draw do # first created -> highest priority. # ... # You can have the root of your site routed with "root" - # just remember to delete public/index.html. # root to: "welcome#index" ``` @@ -558,7 +553,7 @@ 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 +As we did before, we need to add the `show` action in `app/controllers/posts_controller.rb` and its respective view. ```ruby |