rails Command Examples

A server-side MVC framework written in Ruby. Some subcommands such as rails generate have their own usage documentation. More information: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html.

• Create a new rails project:

rails new "{{project_name}}"

• Start local server for current project on port 3000:

rails server

• Start local server for current project on a specified port:

rails server -p "{{port}}"

• Open console to interact with application from command-line:

rails console

• Check current version of rails:

rails --version