Codecast: Getting Started with Rails 7 01: Install, Create Project, and Start Server
Channel: Stateless Code
Date: 18/12/2021

Ruby on Rails 7 is out! This is the 1st video in the Getting Started with Rails 7 series. In this video Mike provides an introduction and overview of Ruby on Rails, installs Rails 7 (and temporarily disables Node to show it's no longer a default dependency), creates the example blog project, explores the directory of the created project, and starts up the Rails server.

This video covers:
00:00:10 Introduction to the series
00:02:05 Navigate to Getting Started Guide and overview of Ruby on Rails and the Rails Way
00:05:20 Verifying the prerequisites. Deactivate Node to show that Node and Yarn are no longer required. See our Install RVM and Ruby with Troubleshooting video (https://youtu.be/h-JBRJH8W7A) for Ruby
00:07:51 Install the Rails 7 gem
00:08:46 Create the Rails application (note lack of Yarn)
00:10:31 Explore the directory structure in VS Code
00:16:30 Start the Rails server and view the new smoke test page
00:18:38 Promotion of our Create a Ruby Gem: NerdDice series (https://statelesscode.com/nerd-dice-gem/)

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