chiraag-kakar / railsblog

A Blogging platform built using Ruby on Rails with the help of Paiza Cloud IDE

RailsBlog

A Blogging platform built using Ruby on Rails with the help of Paiza Cloud IDE.

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Inroduction to the Platform :

• The RailsBlog is built upon the Paiza Cloud Platform.
• Sign up for the mentioned cloud service.
• On the free plan we can use the server / container (we will be creating) for 24 hours after which the server will be restored.
• Also the server gets suspended after 240 minutes of usuage.
• So the free plan is more than enough if we can patiently built the project within the stipulated period.

Alternative Platforms :

• AWS Cloud9 is another popular cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Let's get started :

Create a Blank Rails App -

• After signing up to the cloud service with the credentials (mail or username and password) create a new server.
• Then go to the terminal and create a blank rails app using the following command :

rails new blog

'blog' will be the name of our application.

The dependencies will take some minutes to install.

Changing the database engine's version to the required version -

• Inside the main Rails folder "blog" , there will be "gemfile"
• Inside that file replace the following line :

gem 'sqlite3'

with

gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.13'

• Also make sure that the Autosave box is checked.

After making changes in the gemfile , enter the following commands in the terminal to update and install the specified version of dependencies :

cd blog
bundle install
bundle update

Activating the Server :

The server can be activated by any one of the following commands :

rails server -b $IP -p $PORT

or

rails server

or

rails s

Creating Blog Posts

rails generate scaffold Post title:string body:text

Rails will create a bunch of folders with functionalities in the app directory.

Modifying Database

rake db:migrate

Restarting the server

rails s -b $IP -p $PORT

The database thus gets modified so that we can store blog posts.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details