Starting a Ruby on Rails Project

• create a new app with `rails foo'
• set up an ODBC DSN (in this case, called `mysql5la_rails') connecting to a database instance wherein there is a table `tests':
  

  
  
  create table tests (id integer primary key, str varchar(255), dob datetime);
  

  
  
• from the foo/ directory, edit config/database.yml thus:
  

  
  
  development:
    adapter: odbc
    dsn: mysql5la_rails
    username: me
    password: whatever
  

  
  
• run
  

  
  
  ruby script/generate scaffold admin tests
  

  
  
• run
  

  
  
  ruby script/server
  

  
  
• point your web-browser at http://localhost:3000/admin . You should now be seeing the Webrick server running and a display of the entries in the tests table, with links to edit / delete / create new rows.