How to Install MailForm on Linux Mint Latest

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing MailForm, a form handling library for Ruby on Rails, on Linux Mint Latest operating system. MailForm allows users to easily create and process email forms.

Before you proceed, make sure you have Ruby on Rails and Git installed on your system. If not, you can install them through the terminal by running the following command:

sudo apt install ruby rails git

Now, let's begin the installation process for MailForm:

1. Open the terminal on your Linux Mint system.
2. Navigate to the directory where you want to store your application's code. For example, if you want to create a new directory called "mailform_app", run the following command:

mkdir mailform_app
cd mailform_app

3. Clone the MailForm repository from GitHub by running the following command:

git clone https://github.com/Feuerhamster/mailform.git

4. Go into the MailForm directory by running the following command:

cd mailform

5. Install all the required gems by running the following command:

bundle install

6. Next, you need to create a migration for the database using the following command:

rails generate migration CreateMessages

7. Edit the newly created migration file, located in the "db/migrate" directory, to add the following fields:

class CreateMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :messages do |t|
      t.string :name
      t.string :email
      t.text :body
      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

8. Run the migration using the following command:

rake db:migrate

9. Now, you need to create a new message model by running the following command:

rails generate model message name:string email:string body:text

10. Run the database migration again to apply the changes made by the newly created model:

rake db:migrate

11. Finally, start the rails server by running the following command:

rails server

12. Open your web browser and navigate to "localhost:3000/messages/new" to access the MailForm form.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed and set up MailForm on your Linux Mint Latest system.

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