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Before we begin, please take a minute to read the . By installing any necessary dependencies beforehand, we’ll be able to get our application up and running smoothly.
At this point, we should have Crystal and Amber installed. We should also have PostgreSQL and NodeJS installed to build a default application.
To verify you have Amber installed, run the command amber -v
in your terminal window:
To bootstrap your Amber application, run amber new
with an absolute or relative directory path to the application directory it should create. Assuming that the name of your application is "weblog", let's run:
Additionally, the following options may be passed to the above command:
-d
This specifies the database driver to use. It defaults to pg, for PostgreSQL.
-t
This specifies the template rendering engine. It defaults to slang, the Slim-inspired templating language.
Amber generates the along with files necessary for the application.
Change your current directory to weblog
, if that was the path you chose:
Amber makes it easy to interact with your database. Amber supports Postgres, MySql, and Sqlite.
Edit the database setting for your current environment by editing the file:
Amber looks at the database_url
key for the default database connection string.
With your database credentials ready, run the following command in your terminal window:
This creates your application's Postgres database. It should output:
And finally, we’ll start the Amber server:
If your screen looks like the image above, congratulations!
Locally, the application is running in a Crystal process. To stop it, we hit ctrl-c once, just as we would terminate the program normally.
By default Amber accepts requests on port 3000. If we point our favorite web browser at , we should see the Amber Framework welcome page.
You now have a working Amber application. If you don’t see the page above, try accessing it via .
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