<h1>Congratulations, you've put Ruby on Rails!</h1>
<p>
<i>You've succesfully configured your web server to point at this Rails application.</i>
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<p>Before you move on, verify that the following conditions have been met:</p>
<p><b>Before you move on</b>, verify that the following conditions have been met:</p>
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<li>The log directory and the empty log files must be writable to the web server (<code>chmod -R 777 log</code>).
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<p>Take the following steps to get started:</p>
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<li>Create empty production and test databases for your application.<br/>
<small>Warning: Don't point your test database at your production database, it'll destroy the latter on test runs!</small>
<li>Create empty development and test databases for your application.<br/>
<small>Recommendation: Use *_development and *_test names, such as basecamp_development and basecamp_test</small><br/>
<small>Warning: Don't point your test database at your development database, it'll destroy the latter on test runs!</small>
<li>Edit config/database.yml with your database settings.
<li>Create a new controller using the <code>script/new_controller</code> generator <br/>
<small>Help: Run with no arguments for documentation</small>
<li>Create a new model using the <code>script/new_model</code> generator <br/>
<small>Help: Run with no arguments for documentation</small>
<li>See all the tests run and fail by running <code>rake</code>.
<li>Create controllers and models using the generators in <code>script/new_*</code><br/>
<small>Help: Run a generator with no arguments for documentation</small>
<li>See all the tests run by running <code>rake</code>.
<li>Develop your Rails application!
<li>Setup FastCGI or mod_ruby to get production-level performance
<li>Setup Apache with <ahref="http://www.fastcgi.com">FastCGI</a> (and <ahref="http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=fcgi">Ruby bindings</a>), if you need better performance
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Having problems getting up and running? First try debugging it yourself by looking at the log files. <br/> Then try the friendly Rails
community on IRC (<ahref="http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/IRC">howto IRC</a>). It's on FreeNode, in channel
