# Website won't load

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/website-wont-load/166613>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 27, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/website-wont-load/166613 "2009-04-27T22:07:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![terencepires](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@terencepires](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/terencepires)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/website-wont-load/166613/1 "2009-04-27T22:07:37Z")

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Hi there,

First of all, as i’m new here i would like to salute everybody on the  
forum.

I’m a total Rails and Ruby newbie and had a hard time trying to set up a  
dev environment on my computer but now i’m done, thanks to instantrails.

I’m currently trying to modify an existing website, but it won’t load…  
The example apps provided in instantrails work well…

I understand that there are config files i should modify but i have no  
idea on what to edit.

Can somebody help ?

Cheers

Terence

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**Author:** ![terencepires](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@terencepires](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/terencepires)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/website-wont-load/166613/2 "2009-04-28T02:06:06Z")

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Terence Pires wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> First of all, as i’m new here i would like to salute everybody on the  
> forum.
> 
> I’m a total Rails and Ruby newbie and had a hard time trying to set up a  
> dev environment on my computer but now i’m done, thanks to instantrails.
> 
> I’m currently trying to modify an existing website, but it won’t load…  
> The example apps provided in instantrails work well…
> 
> I understand that there are config files i should modify but i have no  
> idea on what to edit.
> 
> Can somebody help ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Terence

There are numerous free tutorials on the web, however I would highly  
recommend the book “Agile Web D. with Rails rev. 3” by Dave  
Thomas.

It can be found here:

> **[Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers](https://pragprog.com)**
>
> We improve the lives of professional developers. We create timely, practical books on classic and cutting-edge topics to help you learn and practice your craft, and accelerate your career. Come learn with us.

The best way to learn the guts of ruby (once you’re up and running):  
[http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/](http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/)  
[http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/](http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/)  
[http://api.rubyonrails.org/](http://api.rubyonrails.org/)

Really all you have to do to get started is to know a couple things:

1. open up a shell (command prompt) and change directory to where you  
want to put your application.
2. Then type rails appname.
3. change directory into the new application.
4. change app/config/database.yml to your database information (no  
configuration necessary if you are using sqlite3
5. run rake db:create
6. from then on just type ruby script/generate and it will show you all  
the options you can use with the generator.

You’ll then need to generate models, controllers, and views for the  
different functions of your application.

Have fun!