Now that you have your Rails environment setup, and you are more comfortable working with the terminal, we’re going to generate the app we are going to be working on throughout the course.

In this section, we'll talk about how to use the rails generator to create a new app completely from scratch. We'll also walk through through the file system to see what files the generator created for us. This is important because Rails does a lot of magic for us, but it cannot create the entire application. By understanding the file system, we'll know what to do to create the app just as we want it.

Next, we'll work with Rails scaffolds - a powerful tool that allows us to generate a lot of code within a short amount of time.

With that in mind, let's get going in this section.