Getting started

Here’s how to get rolling:

  1. Everything you need installs as gems

    sudo gem install google-appengine

    Make sure you also have bundler version 0.7.2

  2. Assign an app identifier

    Simply create an application at appspot.com,
    we'll refer to that as rails_app in this document.

  3. Create a folder for your app

    mkdir rails_app; cd rails_app

  4. Run the setup script

    Download rails_appengine.rb and run it
    from within the same directory

  5. Edit the configuration file

    Update application-id in the config.ru file

Development Tools

These tools provide local access to the APIs

  • Open local console

    appcfg.rb run script/console

  • Start development server

    dev_appserver.rb .

  • Publish to production

    appcfg.rb update .