goals do
goal "Let's fire up the application locally"
end
steps do
step do
console "rails server"
end
step do
text "Point your web browser to "
url "http://localhost:3000"
cloud9_instruction do
span " Click on Preview > Preview Running application"
end
p "See your web app actually running! It should look like this:"
img src: "img/Start_page.png", alt: "Screenshot of a Ruby on Rails default home page"
end
step do
message "When at the terminal where Rails server is running, you can always type **Control-C** to stop it. You can do this now."
result <<-STOPPING_RAILS_SERVER
^CExiting
STOPPING_RAILS_SERVER
end
end
explanation do
message "`rails server` ran your application locally just like Heroku will be running it on their servers."
message "This provides a very simple means to see your changes before you commit and push them to Heroku."
message "Control-C is a way of closing or cancelling terminal programs. Since `rails server` will run forever, you need to interrupt it with Control-C."
end
next_step "creating_a_migration"