<li>Create empty development and test databases for your application.<br/>
<small>Recommendation: Use *_development and *_test names, such as basecamp_development and basecamp_test</small><br/>
<small>Warning: Don't point your test database at your development database, it'll destroy the latter on test runs!</small>
<li>Edit config/database.yml with your database settings.
<li>Create controllers and models using the generator in <code>script/generate</code><br/>
<small>Help: Run the generator with no arguments for documentation</small>
<li>See all the tests run by running <code>rake</code>.
<li>Develop your Rails application!
<li>Setup Apache with <ahref="http://www.fastcgi.com">FastCGI</a> (and <ahref="http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=fcgi">Ruby bindings</a>), if you need better performance
Trying to setup a default page for Rails using Routes? You'll have to delete this file (public/index.html) to get under way. Then define a new route in <tt>config/routes.rb</tt> of the form: