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1.6 Conclusion

We’ve come a long way in this chapter: installation, development environment setup, version control, and deployment. In the next chapter, we’ll build on the foundation from Chapter 1 to make a database-backed toy app, which will give us our first real taste of what Rails can do.

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1.6.1 What we learned in this chapter

•Ruby on Rails is a web development framework written in the Ruby programming language.

•Installing Rails, generating an application, and editing the resulting files is easy using a pre-configured cloud environment.

•Rails comes with a command-line command called rails that can generate new applications (rails new) and run local servers (rails server).

•We added a controller action and modified the root route to create a

“hello, world” application.

•We protected against data loss while enabling collaboration by placing our application source code under version control with Git and pushing the resulting code to a private repository at Bitbucket.

•We deployed our application to a production environment using Heroku.

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