The build of the website was very difficult, as I was using a language that I knew very little about. I had started previously about 3 months before with absolutely no knowledge in the area and had started to learn ‘on the job’ at a web design agency. It was at this point that I decided it would be an excellent idea to try and code an entire content management system using this language.
The first stage was to set up my mac to allow for ruby to run. This required complex terminal commands to setup the rails server, then connect the files to a github account. This meant I could push my changes to a git server and never loose any of my files. It also meant I had a version control program taking care of the specific handling of correct code.
To get the rails server setup, and actually built i needed to follow these commands. They meant i’d be able to setup the webiste alone without too much trouble. This meant the files were all stored online. It also meant that I could use Github to push the final version to the server.
When editing the files I used Atom. The file structure is reasonably simple to understand, to begin with there is the App folder. This contains most of the important files. Assets contain all the files like stysheets, fonts, javascrips files, and actual files such as images shown on the site. Controllers define the pages that will be used in the site, pulling the data from the models, these pages will be pushed to the views.
Another very important part of the file structure is the config section as it contains the routes file;
The routes file contains all the different views folders, and what they contain such as index, show & new ect.
With this basic knowledge it is reasonably easy to go about setting up and editing a Ruby on Rails website.
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