To generate a new Rails project, simply run the rails command from the command-line with the name of your project as an argument. Ruby on Rails will then create a basic application and supporting scripts in that directory. The name of this project will be blog.
$ rails blog
create
create app/controllers
create app/helpers
create app/models
create app/views/layouts
create config/environments
create config/initializers
create db
create doc
create lib
create lib/tasks
create log
create public/images
... snip ...
The rails command will tell you which files it's creating. When it's finished, you'll be back at the command prompt. Change directory to your new blog directory.
$ cd blog
blog$
As of Rails 2.0, the default database driver is sqlite3. If you have sqlite3 installed and configured, no database configuration is required. For a development system, sqlite3 is recommended as it's the most convenient. For production systems, a faster SQL server such as MySQL is recommended, but you don't have to worry about that just yet, since sqlite3 will be used.
