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Problem

How to use the rails command: A server-side MVC framework written in Ruby. Some subcommands such as generate have their own usage documentation. More information: <https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html>.

Solution

rails — A server-side MVC framework written in Ruby. Some subcommands such as generate have their own usage documentation. More information: <https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html>.

Create a new rails project:

rails new "{{project_name}}"

Generate a scaffold for a model named Post, predefining the attributes title and body:

rails generate scaffold Post title:string body:text

Run migrations:

rails db:migrate

List all routes:

rails routes

Start local server for current project on port 3000:

rails server

Start local server for current project on a specified port:

rails server {{[-p|--port]}} "{{port}}"

Open console to interact with application from command-line:

rails console

Display version:

rails {{[-v|--version]}}

Code Snippets

Create a new rails project

rails new "{{project_name}}"

Generate a scaffold for a model named Post, predefining the attributes title and body

rails generate scaffold Post title:string body:text

Run migrations

rails db:migrate

List all routes

rails routes

Start local server for current project on port 3000

rails server

Context

tldr-pages: common/rails

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