Make svn repo:

  svn mkdir http://svn.ducknewmedia.com.au/public/getting_started -m "getting started with rails project"
  svn co http://svn.ducknewmedia.com.au/public/getting_started getting_started
  cd getting_started
  rails -c .
  svn ci -m "default rails project layout"

Set your database config, the quickest way is to use sqlite3

Run the server (then open a new terminal for working with)

  ./script/server

Visit http://localhost:3000
We want our own page instead of the "getting started" one.
Delete index.html
Refresh, you'll see a routing error
In order to get something on the screen we'll need a controller

First set up an integration test called read_blog. Integration tests are generally named after something a user does.

  ./script/generate integration read_blog

Write a test method that checks for something you know you'll put in the title

Generate a controller to handle viewing posts:

  ./script/generate controller posts

Controllers have default routes that map to their names. To see this visit: /posts
Ok it wants an index action. Create views/post/index.rhtml
Put some html here, including the expected title in order to make the test pass 

Ok set the posts index to the default route

Index should be a list of posts, there are no posts, we can create some but we need a model

  ./script/generate model post

Add some fixtures

You need a schema to store your data. Edit the migration.

  rake db:migrate
  rake db:test:prepare

Now tell you test to load the fixtures, they're now loaded into the db for every test!

Tests pass!

check dev version - nothing there, need to load fixtures

rake db:fixtures:load

What good is a blog if you can't write any posts?

Lets make a form!

Lets try to post a post to the posts collection (fuck)

You'll need to set up the POST /posts route