From 850daecc58be5be1971234b68f74ba3014733f74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Miller Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:10:34 -0700 Subject: Some more typos --- .../getting_started_with_rails.txt | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'railties/doc/guides/getting_started_with_rails') diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/getting_started_with_rails/getting_started_with_rails.txt b/railties/doc/guides/getting_started_with_rails/getting_started_with_rails.txt index c247d417f1..2805e5629d 100644 --- a/railties/doc/guides/getting_started_with_rails/getting_started_with_rails.txt +++ b/railties/doc/guides/getting_started_with_rails/getting_started_with_rails.txt @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ Getting Started With Rails This guide covers getting up and running with Ruby on Rails. After reading it, you should be familiar with: -* Installing Rails, create a new Rails application, and connect your application to a database +* Installing Rails, creating a new Rails application, and connecting your application to a database * Understanding the purpose of each folder in the Rails structure * Creating a scaffold, and explain what it is creating and why you need each element -* Understand the basics of model, view, and controller interaction -* Understand the basics of HTTP and RESTful design +* The basics of model, view, and controller interaction +* The basics of HTTP and RESTful design == How to use this guide This guide is designed for beginners who want to get started with a Rails application from scratch. It assumes that you have no prior experience using the framework. However, it is highly recommended that you *familiarize yourself with Ruby before diving into Rails*. Rails isn't going to magically revolutionize the way you write web applications if you have no experience with the language it uses. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ From your terminal, type: `rails blog` -This will create a folder in your working directory called "blog". Open up that folder and have a look. For the majority of this tutorial, we will live in the app/ folder, but here's a basic rundown on the function of each folder in a Rails app: +This will create a folder in your working directory called "blog". Open up that folder and have a look at it. For the majority of this tutorial, we will live in the app/ folder, but here's a basic rundown on the function of each folder in a Rails app: [grid="all"] `-----------`----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ production: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- == Starting the web server -Rails comes bundled with the lightweight Webrick web server, which (like SQLite) works great in development, but is not designed for a production environment. If you install Mongrel with `gem install mongrel`, Rails will use the Mongrel web server as the default instead (recommended). +Rails comes bundled with the lightweight Webrick web server, which (like SQLite) works great in development mode, but is not designed for a production environment. If you install Mongrel with `gem install mongrel`, Rails will use the Mongrel web server as the default instead (recommended). ******************* If you're interested in alternative web servers for development and/or production, check out mod_rails (a.k.a Passenger) ******************* @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ This command will always run any migrations that have not yet been run. .Singular and Plural Inflections ************************************************************************************************************** -Rails is very smart, it knows that if you have a model "Person," the database table should be called "people". If you have a model "Company", the database table will be called "companies". +Rails is very smart, it knows that if you have a model "Person," the database table should be called "people". If you have a model "Company", the database table will be called "companies". There are a few circumstances where it will not know the correct singular and plural of a model name, but you should have no problem with this as long as you are using common English words. Fixing these rare circumstances is beyond the scope of this guide. ************************************************************************************************************** === The Controller -- cgit v1.2.3