Launch your Rails database in under 5 minutes

A step by step tutorial

This will be strictly instructional, follow this step by step guide to quickly build your backend.

1. In your terminal: rails new APP-NAME --api
- Or add this flag if you have Postgres installed and would like to use it: rails new APP-NAME --database=postgresql —-api
- If you choose to use Postgres, remember to turn Postgres on when you launch your server.
2. In your terminal: cd APP-NAME && open Gemfile, then find and uncomment gem 'rack-cors', then add this line of code on the next line: gem 'active_model_serializers'

3. In your terminal:bundle && open config/initializers/cors.rb, then uncomment the following code and use * for origins:

4. In your terminal: open config/routes.rb, then add namespacing and resources:
# resources :posts, only: [:index, :create] is an example for when you have more models.