I am new to ruby, played with Sinatra now want to try Rails 3. I am setting up my environment and came up with a checklist.

How would you improve it?

Here is what I have installed

Rake .9.2 Compass 0.11.5 Rails 3.0.7 Passenger 3.0.7 + a host of dependencies. My goal is to create an environment with Compass Framework, Passenger and jQuery.

Here are my steps -- Thanks for the feedback!

Create Rails App, Database & Server Instance (1) Run rails new prjName --using blueprint (2) Is httpd.conf file pointing to right file? (3) Delete /public/index.html.erb (4) Update Rakefile if using Rake 0.9.2

module ::applicationName class Application include Rake::DSL end end

module ::RakeFileUtils extend Rake::FileUtilsExt end

(5) Run rake db:create:all (optional)

(6) Run rails g scaffold modelName attr:DataType..

(7) Add to route.rb root :to => 'resource#action'

(8) Run rake db:migrate

(9) Go to migrate folder and confirm contents of date_create_resource.rb

(10) Add gem "rake", "~> 0.9.2" to Gemfile

Set up jQuery, Compass and Finish Up

(11) Run compass init rails add generated statement to Gemfile

(12)

Add gem "jquery-rails", "~> 1.0.12" to Gemfile (13)

Run rails generate jquery:install --ui (14)

Run compass init rails (to generate a sass folder)? I should not have to do this? Any Compass Users please help me understand why this is the case...

(15) Place js references in ERB file <%= javascript_include_tag"javascripts/jquery.min.js"%> <%= javascript_include_tag "javascripts/jquery-ui.min.js"%> <%= javascript_include_tag "javascripts/jquery-ui.min.js"%>

(16) Review, update Gemfile (jQuery,rake, compass)

(17) Update the compass.rb file

(18) Run bundle install

(19) Restart the server sudo apachectl graceful