Thought building applications using Microsoft Access was easy ? try building one in Rails, it is Easy…
Install and configure ruby and rails as described in my earlier post.
First create a directory to hold your Rails code. Let us say /u01/ror
cd /u01/ror
Issue the following command to create the necessary rails directory structure
rails test
cd to the config directory
cd test/config
Edit the database Connection properties file
vi database.yml
Modify the details for the development environment as follows (You can remove test and production). Make sure you use oracle_enhanced as the adapter, and not just oracle.
development:
adapter: oracle_enhanced
database: RK01
username: scott
password: tiger
cd /u01/ror
Create the Model/View and Controller
script/generate scaffold Customer name:string contact:string phone:string email:string
Create the table named Customers in the Oracle database
rake db:migrate
Start the web server
ruby script/server
Then you can access the application you just created by going to your browser and putting in the URL http://localhost:3000/customers.
This application can now view/add/modify/delete customer information
“That was easy”
“Simply Rails 2” by patrick lenz is a great book for Rails beginners and includes Rails 2 information.
