Let's try out your fresh new development environment with your first proper Rails project!

Begin by running this in your command line, in a folder where you want to put your work:

`whales new weather rails-decal/fa18-lab1`

Now run cd weather to get into the new folder created by Whales, and boot it up with whales server.

If your development environment did not work or did not install, you may use*:*** https://glitch.com/edit/#!/deadpan-planarian (click Remix project to begin)

Part 1: Ruby on Rails Basics

Hello world

Once the server starts up (through whales server, you should be brought to a blank page: that's okay! This is a very minimal skeleton to help you get started with writing your app. But now, the URL you see in the browser (Most likely looks like localhost:1337 or <long number>.ngrok.io) is the domain for your web server!

Begin by opening app/views/**main**/**index**.html.erb. This is the view that is rendered by default by our **main**_controller's index method.

Write "Hello World!" inside this file, and try surrounding it with some HTML tags. An example of this is hidden below for your reference.

Hello, you

Now let's try templating our application, so our app doesn't say "Hello world" to everyone.

Instead, if they provide a name parameter with the request, it should say "Hello <name>!" Otherwise it can just say "Hello!"