Greetings,

I'm pretty new to the whole Linux scene, but I'm getting along quite well with everything so far. In a nutshell, what I'm trying to do is get Ruby (on Rails) working on my server box (Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 Server LAMP install) so that I can start playing around with it, doing demo pages with it, basically just learning how to code with Ruby for the web. (My previous experience with web programming is PHP, ASP, MySQL, etc etc.)

I've gotten through the intallation following Paul Goscicki's tutorial, and Ruby on Rails seems to be installed.

~# ruby --version

shows 1.8.4

~# rails --version

shows 1.1.2

Now for my roadblock: what now?

All the tutorials/install guides seem to end at the point where you get the "You're riding the rails!" page. They end at:

rails myappname

Sure, now when I nav to localhost/myappname/public I see the Welcome aboard page, but I don't rightly know what to do next. This page displays three more steps, but they don't seem to tell you exactly what to do.

I've managed to figure out that I can type in something of this sort:

/www/var/myappname# script/generate controller test

Bunch of text scrolls by and... I'm no further along than I was before doing that. Nothing new in the directory (though there is a test controller in app/controllers, but how do I get it to show up through my browser?)

So my question is, is there any straightforward instructions out there on how to get Ruby on Rails going (post install), so that I can actually start some programming?

Here's my favorite Ruby on Rails "hello world", an "address book" sample:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...y/l-rubyrails/

There are also plenty of additional materials available on the IBM site.

'Hope that helps .. PSM