The following command could start the Rails daemon server for you Rails web application.
rails s
Stopping the web server could be done by simply enter the Ctrl + C command in the terminal. But if your terminal session is disconnected, you have no way to stop the service. In that case, you have to kill the process directly. Continue reading Rails – Stop the Rails Web Server by Command→
# By default, rails console run in development env
rails server
# Run in test env
rails server --environment test
# Run in production env
rails server --environment production
Last time we have integrated the RSpec and Autotest in Rails 3.
Rails – Integrate Autotest and RSpec in Linux
But it seems that it takes quite long for RSpec to complete the tests. This is because RSpec reloads the entire Rails environment for each run. Spork Test Server helps you preloading the Rails environment which greatly reduces the time for running the test suite.
Rails project works well with Git. A .gitignore file can be found in a freshly created Rails project. It would be good to setup the local Git repository before you start the development.
But i got some problems when i tried to setup the Autotest for the RSpec framework. Autotest is a continuous testing tool which run the test suite automatically based on the files you have changed. RSpec is a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework for Ruby. After a few hours of struggling, i finally made it work.
1. Create a new Rails project without the default Test::Unit framework.