Merge pull request #3 from blairanderson/readme

readme / howtorails

HOWTORAILS.md

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+# Make a Website with my Woes
+
+So you want to make a website, and you hear rails is a good place to start?!?!
+Good choice, in all honesty i'd recommend learning whatever your friends(someone to ask for help when you get stuck!) know.
+
+Lets get to it!
+
+## WTF is a Website Anyways?!
+
+Good question! Have you ever written an essay before? And then saved the text file and emailed it to yourself? Well, that text file is a real thing on your computer, its a **TEXT** file.
+
+>the files are in the computer
+
+Have you listened to music on itunes before?  Songs are **MP3** files.
+
+#### Computers hold files, and there are many many **types** of files.
+
+**Answer:** A website is an **HTML** file. Similar to a text file, but a little bit different.
+
+#### Let me explain...
+
+When you open chrome(firefox, etc.) and type in http://www.facebook.com/ your computer is saying 'hey facebook, give me an html file for facebook.com!' and then facebook says 'ok, heres a file' and gives your browser an HTML file :)
+
+When you make a website, you're basically making a thing that gives people these files when they request it.
+
+Notice that visiting *facebook.com* is different than *facebook.com/friends* ... one is the home page, and one is the "friends" page.
+
+These(*facebook.com* and *facebook.com/friends*) are called URLs/addresses/links. Kinda like how houses in your neighborhood have addresses, websites have addresses for each section of their site.
+
+# How To Rails
+
+Rails is a cool way to send people HTML when their browser requests it. Mostly because rails is easy for the person building the site!(YOU)
+
+From now on, instead of the word "Website", we're going to call it the "App". its a shorter word, and more generic. trust me.
+
+Rails helps you build **Apps**(websites)!
+
+In a rails app, when someone requests your home page(root), it goes to the router!
+
+you can look at the router inside [config/routes.rb](config/routes.rb)
+
+The router for this app looks like this:
+
+```ruby
+ # config/routes.rb
+
+Rails.application.routes.draw do
+  root to: 'items#index'
+
+  resources :items, except: [:destroy] do
+    resources :item_comments
+  end
+
+  resources :users, except: [:index]
+  resources :user_sessions, only: [:new, :create, :destroy]
+
+  namespace :admin do
+    root to: 'items#index'
+    resources :items
+  end
+end
+
+```

README.md

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 ```
 
-*Lets look at some code*
-
-When someone visits your website, they're literally just *request*ing some HTML, CSS, and Javascript! *requests* come to your application through the ROUTER.
-
-```ruby
- # config/routes.rb
-
-Rails.application.routes.draw do
-  resources :items, except: [:destroy] do
-    resources :item_comments
-    member do
-      post :toggle
-      post :vote, to: 'user_item_votes#create'
-      delete :vote, to: 'user_item_votes#destroy'
-    end
-  end
-
-  root to: 'items#index'
-
-  resources :users, except: [:index]
-  resources :user_sessions, only: [:new, :create, :destroy]
-
-  get 'login' => 'user_sessions#new', as: :login
-  match 'logout' => 'user_sessions#destroy', as: :logout, via: [:get, :post]
-
-  namespace :admin do
-    root to: 'items#index'
-    resources :items
-  end
-end
-
-```
+## [Lets look at some code](/HOWTORAILS.md)