Running Your Application Locally

Goals

Let's fire up the application locally

Steps

Step 1
On Linux, you may have to enable this line in your Gemfile:
gem 'therubyracer', :platforms => :ruby
Just delete the '#' in front of the statement, then save the file. All that is left is to do a bundle install
Type this in the terminal:
bundle install
Type this in the terminal:
rails server
Step 2

Point your web browser to http://localhost:3000
See your web app actually running!
Step 3
When at the terminal with your running rails server, type Control-C to stop rails server. You can do this now.
Expected result:
^C[2022-03-31 08:33:11] INFO  going to shutdown ...
[2022-03-31 08:33:11] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start done.
Exiting

Explanation

rails server ran your application locally just like Heroku will be running it on their servers. A web server is the hardware (or software) that delivers content to you.

This provides a very simple means to see your changes before you commit and push them to Heroku.

Control-C is a way of closing or cancelling terminal programs. Since rails server runs forever, you need to interrupt it with Control-C.

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Running Your Application Locally

Goals

Steps

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Explanation

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