How to run a Ruby project

Question

First of all I am not Ruby developer, hence my hopefully really simple question.

I inherited a project with the following folder structure:

Capfile
Gemfile
Rakefile
app
config.ru
config
db
doc
lib
public 
script
spec
vendor

My question is:

• how to run this project in local environment? I'm running MAC OS X and have Ruby and Apache installed

• from the folder structure, are you able to identify framework/frameworks this project is utilising?

Thanks for you help!

Marcin

Answer 1

Maybe it's a Ruby on Rails project. Try these lines in the console in the project folder:

gem install bundler
bundle
rake db:create && rake db:migrate
rails s

These commands will start Rails server at localhost:3000 . This project requires DB to be installed. (DB type depends on Gemfile content). Also you should check if config/database.yml file is present.

Answer 2

Old question, but I would open up the Gemfile and see which framework is being used. It is often the first gem in the list.