Setting Up Ruby On Rails Environment On Windows, Linux And Testing The Application With Heroku PaaS

2)If your are behind the proxy, you will not be able to install the gems using bundler. So make sure you set the proxy in cmd promt. Eg: set http_proxy= http://your_proxy:port

3)Open command prompt and CD in to sites folder using cd cd:sites. Run the following command to create a new rails application.

 rails new my_app

4)Your rails application will be created when the above command is executed. Rails comes with a default webrick web-server, so you don’t have to configure a web server for running your applications locally. Make my_app as your current directory and execute the following command to start the rails server.

$ rails s      or

$ rails server

4)In your web browser go to localhost:3000 ,  you will find the welcome page of the newly created rails application “my_app”.

Now we have a running rails application which is set up locally. We can test our rails application in Heroku, a platform as a service which basically offers free plans for hosting basic applications. So that you know how your application looks in the production environment.

Setting Up Heroku For Rails Application Deployment:

group :production do
     gem 'pg' '0.12.2'
end