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[Master Class] [Designer and Developer Workflow] [Generating the Project]

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So, I just got done with my planning meeting with Nick,

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and he's going to start working on some wire frames, but what I want to do 

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is get him some real code as soon as possible.

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So, what I'm going to do is set up a get repository

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so we can share code between each other.

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And then I want to actually create the Rails application and generate the jobs model

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and views so he can start working on them.

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So, let's get to it.

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What I need to do is figure out right now what I need to do and in what order,

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because right now, Nick is in the process of beginning his design work in parallel.

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So, there are some things that I need to get done soon so Nick can begin doing his work.

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Namely, I know that Nick likes to design in actual views in the page.

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He doesn't really spend a whole lot of time working in Photoshop

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and really works on creating his own HTML as he goes.

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Now, he can do that in his own HTML files, but really it's going to be a lot better 

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if he has a Rails scaffold to work on so he can just work directly in the views.

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So really, my priority here is to get the project set up and to be able to get him the project

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with some views that he can begin working on.

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So, our first course of action is going to be to generate the Rails project.

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After that, we need to set up Git.

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Now, I'm going to be using GitHub to store our repository,

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and then Nick can push and pull from GitHub, and I can push and pull from GitHub,

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and that's how we'll keep our code in sync.

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So, I need to go to GitHub and set up a new project and get it set up so we can 

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push into that project, and then I'll be sending Nick the details so he can get set up

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and pull on the project as soon as possible. 

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Then I want to go ahead and generate a scaffold for our jobs.

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And we decided in this iteration we really just want to be able to post jobs

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and be able to view them from the client side.

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So basically, for Nick to be able to do his job, he just needs to be able to have 

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the index view and the show view for the job, and then an interface 

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so he can set up test data in his local account.

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So, the first thing we want to do is, let's go ahead and just generate a new Rails project.

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But first, we need to make sure we have Rails installed.

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So, what I'm going to do first is install Rails.

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So, we'll just do sudo gem install rails.

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This will take a little while to install Rails, so we'll just skip ahead.

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And we're done.

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So, I'm in my projects directory, and let's go ahead and generate our Rails project.

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So, let's take a look at the options that we can do for Rails

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and see if we want to specify any of them when we generate it.

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So basically, our options here are to work with what database we want to use,

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and I think ultimately, we're probably going to deploy onto Postgres,

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but for our development purposes, I'm going to work with the default SQLite3,

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and this is because it's just really easy to set up.

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It's just a local file, and it's going to work for us.

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We shouldn't need to do anything advanced that would require us to really 

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step out of the database agnostic part of active record, 

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so we can use really any database that we want.

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So, the other thing we are probably going to go ahead and skip are the prototype files,

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and these are the JavaScript files right now included by default with Rails.

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We're going to be using jQuery, and jQuery in Rails 3.1 would be the default, 

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but right now, prototype is the default, so let's go ahead and skip those,

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and we'll be adding in the jQuery parts momentarily.

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So basically, to create a new Rails project, we're going to type in 

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"rails new" to generate the project, and let's give it a name.

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We'll call it "easyjobs," and we'll pass in "- J" to skip the prototype files.

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So, let's see what happens when we do that.

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So, it's gone ahead and created everything, and if we look at our files,

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we'll see there's an easy jobs directory, so let's just jump into that.

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So, if I clear this out and we take a look inside, we have a Rails project.

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Now, I'm going to go ahead and open up the Rails project in my text editor TextMate.

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Now, here we have our Rails project set up and ready for us to use, 

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and it looks pretty good.

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We can look into our public directory inside JavaScripts,

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and we can see that the prototype files are not there.

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We just have a basic application.js, and we'll be setting up our defaults later.