ruby-on-rails-5 Getting started with ruby-on-rails-5 Creating your first hello world page

Example

Create a new rails app hello-world from command in Windows and Terminal in Linux.

rails new hello-world

Now move to new app directory

cd hello-world

Now generate a controller

rails generate controller hello_world index

Here index is the name of method in hello_world controller. You can check it opening the file app/controllers/hello_world_controller.rb in your application directory. Code looks like this:

class HelloWorldController < ApplicationController
  def index
  end
end

A route is automatically added in your config/routes.rb file which points to your method. See the code in your routes.rb file.

    Rails.application.routes.draw do
      get 'hello_world/index'

      # For details on the DSL available within this file, see http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
   end

Now open file app/views/hello_world/index.html.rb Clear all the content and write

Hello, this is my first rails page.

Start rails server:

rails server

Open this url in your browser:

http://localhost:3000/hello_world/

You should see:

Hello, this is my first rails page

Make your new page, your home page. In routes.rb file in config folder remove the line get 'hello_world/index' and add:

root 'hello_world#index'

Now open: http://localhost:3000/ You will see: Hello, this is my first rails You are done.