This tutorial shows you how to start a blog page using Ruby on Rails. By covering the design aspects of a Rails web application, it makes it easier to understand the concepts behind Rails and how they fit together. A simple blog/CMS is almost trivial to implement in Rails—scaffolding alone will get you a good way through.

Rails makes it very easy to generate the files that you need to start building a Rails application. Just open the Terminal on a Mac or the Command prompt on Windows.

Using your terminal navigate to your working directory and generate your new rails application.

rails new blog -T