1. At the command prompt, create a new Rails application:rails new myapp (wheremyapp is the application name)

|-- app|Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example |-- assets*| |-- images| |-- javascripts

• | `-- stylesheets

  | |-- controllers| |-- helpers| |-- mailers| |-- models|-- views |-- layouts|-- config| |-- environments| |-- initializers|-- locales |-- db |-- doc |-- lib |-- tasks|-- log|-- public|-- script|-- test| |-- fixtures| |-- functional| |-- integration| |-- performance|-- unit |-- tmp | |-- cache | |-- pids | |-- sessions |-- sockets-- vendor |-- assets-- stylesheets`-- plugins

appHolds all the code that's specific to this particular application.

app/assetsContains subdirectories for images, stylesheets, and JavaScript files.

app/controllersHolds controllers that should be named like weblogs_controller.rb forautomated URL mapping. All controllers should descend fromApplicationController which itself descends from ActionController::Base.