Why does my rails command always create a new application?

Question

Forgive me as I\'m new to both *nix and ruby on rails. My rails command always creates a new application and I can\'t figure out why. Running \"rails new myApp\" will just gen

Answer 1

The common way to create a Rails application is:

rails new MyApp

This will create a folder with your new Rails application called MyApp

If your folder name is the same name you plan to use for your application you can use the command below:

rails new .

Notice the period at the end telling it to use the current directory.

If you want to supply a specific application name, you’ll have to do the following:

rails new /path/to/folder/you/want/to/use