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- [Instructor] We're ready to create our first Ruby on Rails project. The project we're going to create is a simple content management system, or CMS for short, and we're going to be working with this project throughout this training title. This course will assume that you already have Ruby on Rails 5 installed. If you need help with installation, Lynda.com has courses for both Mac and Windows which will help you get everything installed and configured. The other thing you need to do is decide what database and other software you're going to use to work with Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails has built-in database support for SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Other database types are compatible, they're just not built-in. They require adding a Ruby gem to serve as the database adapter. Now as for me, I'm going to be using MySQL as my database, the browser I'll be using is going to be Firefox, and the text editor is going to be Atom. All of these are excellent choices, and as a bonus, all of…

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