Starting a Rails back end from scratch.

Alex Duterte
1 min readSep 28, 2020

Looking to create a Rails backend from scratch? In this following quick start guide, we’ll cover creating a new API backend, the database and migration, model, and controller files.

From the console we can run

rails new myappname --api

Alternatively, if you are looking to use postgresql as your database, we can run

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