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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Creating an Authentication System Generating the User Model

Jack Hou
Jack Hou
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Posted by Jack Hou
Jack Hou
6,975 Points

where is the HTML markup located?

How did Jim change the appearance of the site? Which CSS file is it? I want to learn how I can change my own site appearance in the future

3 Answers

Naomi Freeman
STAFF
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Naomi Freeman
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Mmmm I wish I could screencap you.

So my app is called "housing". So the main directory is "housing" Imagine each dot is an arrow.

housing

  • app

    • assets
    • stylesheets
      • application.css is where CSS for your whole entire site goes

and then separately

housing

  • app

    • assets
    • controllers
    • helpers
    • mailers
    • models
    • views
      • layouts
      • application.html.erb is where you can implement HTML for the whole site

So application.html.erb is where I have all the HTML markup for the nav bar on my site and application.css is where I define the colour of my navbar font

You can put html and css in random places elsewhere, but it's best to follow the Rails conventions :)

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any more questions.

Jack Hou
Jack Hou
6,975 Points
Jack Hou
Jack Hou
6,975 Points

Thanks! I just realized I completely skipped over the front-end introduction haha