Back-End Web Development

##Welcome BEWDiful Students

This is your course repository. You will use this to get all your course materials and some additional stuff too!

Strongly Suggested Hardware/Software

Most Ruby/Rails web developers, including our instructional team, use Macs to do their development. We want you to get used to using these tools and will be able to provide the most support for you if you use them too.

• Computer: Mac
• Operating System: OSX Mountain Lion
• Text Editor: Sublime Text 2
• Internet Browser: Google Chrome

Below is a setup guide that should help you get your environment ready for development.

#Install Git, Ruby and Rails

##Apple Mac Users

1. Make sure you have an apple ID (you should already have one).

2. Xcode installed?

   • Go to step 4

3. Xcode not installed?

   • Go to: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action
   • Log in with your Apple ID and password (same as iTunes).
   • Install Command Line Tools for your operating system.
   • Check install: $ gcc --version

4. Install homebrew from terminal:

   • $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

   • After install is complete: $ brew doctor

     • If you get following error:

       "Warning: Experimental support for using Xcode without the "Command Line Tools".
       

     Go back to step 1.

5. Install Git

   • $ brew update
   • $ brew install git
   • Check install:
     • $ which git
       • should get: /usr/local/bin/git

6. Configure Git with your Name and Email

   • Make sure you use the same email address for Git, GitHub, and Heroku.
     git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "youremail@domain.com"

7. Install RVM with Ruby 2.0.0

   • $ \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails --autolibs=enable This will take a few minutes, and once it’s done, quit and relaunch Terminal, then run this command:
   • $ type rvm | head -1 If you get rvm is a function, that means RVM was successfully installed.
   • Make sure the latest versions of RVM, Ruby and Rails were installed, run the commands below:

     • For RVM

       • $ rvm -v

         You should get

         rvm 1.20.13 or higher.
         

     • For Ruby

       • $ ruby -v

         You should get

         ruby 2.0.0p0 or higher.
         

     • For Rails

       • $ rails -v

         You should get

         Rails 3.2.13 or higher.
         

Note: Install instructions credit to: Moncef Belyamani ##Windows Users

Ruby Installer:

To get started you are going to use the Rails installer by rubyinstaller.org, and then schedule time with the instructional team to upgrade your Ruby and Rails versions after class.

• Go to http://railsinstaller.org/.
• Grab the 1.9 version (we will upgrade later). This will set up your environment and you can start working with git right away.

Extra command line tools:

We will be using the command line a lot during this course. On Windows we also suggest installing gow. Gow is a bunch of unix command line tools ported to Windows. It will make it easy to follow in class with the same commands as your Mac buddies. https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki

##Happy Coding :)

You're ready for the first class.