This project is meant to provide a setup that can be used to build a Ruby on Rails application from scratch using GitHub Codespaces. This is being used to organise Day of Code, an event based on tutorials provided by Rails Girls.
Forking means creating a personal copy of someone else’s project: you can do that by following step two under Forking a Repository in these instructions for the current repository. It’s OK to leave all the default settings for the fork and you could enter an optional description if you would like to reference back to this project later on.
Navigate to Code > Codespaces in the upper right and click Create codespace on main.
While you wait for your codespace to be ready your coach will explain the processes that are going on and how your environment is being set up.
Congratulations, you’re up and running! You will see your own copy of Visual Studio Code (VS Code) which is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) where you can write and run code.
Head over to https://guides.railsgirls.com/app to start building your Rails application. You will be typing commands into the Terminal window of VS Code.