Goal

To learn Ruby on Rails we are going to use a "Real World" example: a voting system for you and your friends to play with. Users of the app will be able to

• view the topics
• vote on topics
• create, edit, and destroy topics

Here's a screenshot of what it will look like:

Meta-Goal

When you have completed today's goal of getting the basic application online you should understand:

• Basic Ruby syntax
• How to try out Ruby and Rails code (rails console)
• How to go from requirements to a new working Rails application
• The basic tools a RoR (Ruby on Rails) developer uses (editor, git)

Requirements

We're going to be working with:

• Ruby 3.3 or greater
• Rails 7.2.1 (the last number is not important)
• Bundler
• SQLite

Please ensure you have everything working before you start.

Format

Each lesson will look like this:

steps to take.

def code_to_write
  1 + 1
end