Ruby on Rails 7 is out! This is the 1st video in the Getting Started with Rails 7 series. In this video Mike provides an introduction and overview of Ruby on Rails, installs Rails 7 (and temporarily disables Node to show it’s no longer a default dependency), creates the example blog project, explores the directory of the created project, and starts up the Rails server. We cross-posted this video to our Setup and Configuration playlist.

This video covers:

• 00:00:10 Introduction to the series
• 00:02:05 Navigate to Getting Started Guide and overview of Ruby on Rails and the Rails Way
• 00:05:20 Verifying the prerequisites. Deactivate Node to show that Rals 7 no longer requires Node and Yarn. See our Install RVM and Ruby with Troubleshooting video for installing Ruby
• 00:07:51 Install the Rails 7 gem
• 00:08:46 Create Rails 7 project application (note lack of Yarn)
• 00:10:31 Explore the directory structure in VS Code
• 00:16:30 Start the Rails server and view the new smoke test page
• 00:18:38 Promotion of our Create a Ruby Gem: NerdDice series

In the video we reference David Heinemeier Hansson’s Rails 7 Demo video. This video is a great crash-course on what is possible with Ruby on Rails 7!