<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
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Having problems getting up and running? First try debugging it yourself by looking at the log files. <br/>
Then try the friendly Rails community <ahref="http://www.rubyonrails.org">on the web</a> or <ahref="http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/IRC">on IRC</a>