Rails 2.0.1 Todo List tutorial

I’ve been meaning to try Rails 2.0.1, and I had some trouble finding an example. I did find this one, which is quite good.

I thought I would add one of my own. Here in five lines are the steps to create a basic todo list application in rails.

rails todo
cd todo
rake db:create:all
script/generate scaffold Todo title:string body:text done:boolean due:datetime
rake db:migrate

Then start the web server
script/server

Open your browser to http://localhost:3000/todos

You can now create, edit and Delete items. Wow. Not one SQL command.

This tutorial assumes the following:
ralis 2.0.1 installed
running mysql with no password for root at localhost.
(And it was also made on a Macbook OS X Leopard).

12 thoughts on “Rails 2.0.1 Todo List tutorial”

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  2. That is just the ticket! I have been struggling to make a site because of the changes in scaffold and routing, and this example got me through it.

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  3. great example! it’s nice to start with the basics and work your way up to the more complicated examples. a great “Hello, world” example. Thanks for putting this up.

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  6. Nice and thank you. I used the following to to get this up and running with sqlite3:
    rails -d sqlite3 todo
    cd todo
    rake db:create:all
    script/generate scaffold Todo title:string body:text done:boolean due:datetime
    rake db:migrate
    script/server

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