create_webapp.md

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Build and deploy a web application

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Let's build a web app

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rails suggestorama -m http://gist.github.com/194076.txt

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	<td>Rakefile</td>
	<td>This file contains batch jobs that can be run from the terminal.</td>
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	<td>app/</td>

	<td>Contains the controllers, models, and views for your application. You will mostly work here.</td>
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	<td>config/</td>
	<td>Configure your application&#8217;s runtime rules, routes, database, and more.</td>
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	<td>db/</td>
	<td>Shows your current database schema, as well as the database migrations. </td>
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	<td>doc/</td>
	<td>In-depth documentation for your application.</td>

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	<td>lib/</td>
	<td>Extended modules for your application (not covered today).</td>
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	<td>log/</td>

	<td>Application log files.</td>
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	<td>public/</td>
	<td>The only folder seen to the world as-is.  This is where your images, javascript, stylesheets (<span class="caps">CSS</span>), and other static files go.</td>
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	<td>script/</td>
	<td>Scripts provided by Rails to do recurring tasks.  We'll use some today.</td>
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	<td>test/</td>
	<td>Unit tests, fixtures, and other test apparatus.</td>

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	<td>tmp/</td>
	<td>Temporary files</td>
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	<td>vendor/</td>

	<td>A place for third-party code. </td>
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File/Folder	Purpose
README	This is a brief instruction manual for your application.

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run the web app

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ruby script/server

http://localhost:3000

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make it your own

• modify public/index.html
• run it again

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Awesome! Let's ship it!

• we'll create a local git repository
• then deploy to heroku

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git init git add . git commit -m 'basic web application'

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