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Useful Beginner Rails Developer Tips

1.
From the shell: chmod -R 777 cookbook - Makes all the files in a folder have the the correct permissions, saves times not having to change permissions on each individual file.

Here is a breakdown of the command:
chmod - is the command to change the permissions
-R - recursive (which basically means everything in that folder)
777 - what you are setting your permissions to, you will probably want to read something deeper on chmod permissions
cookbook - the folder applying chmod to

2.
This is how you download directly to your server so you can skip the download to your local computer and then upload back to your server.

Again this is from the shell.
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz

Life became exceptionally easier once I understood just a few basic linux commands.

3.
tar xvzf ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz
This basically unzips the file on the server. (Extracts the compressed files)

4. Some Apache Essentials
Restart Apache:
/usr/sbin/apachectl graceful

Other commands:
/usr/sbin/apachectl status
/usr/sbin/apachectl stop
/usr/sbin/apachectl start

5.
Mongrel is a better server to use the Webbrick if you follow some of the above steps you will now know how to install it (gem install mongrel) to run it in the background from the shell:
$ cd myrailsapp
$ mongrel_rails start -d

Which runs Mongrel in the background. You can stop it with:

$ mongrel_rails stop

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