Ideally when you are starting a Ruby on Rails project you’re starting from scratch and most tutorials and guides you’ll find on the Internet assume this. I found very little information about starting a project from existing data and I thought I’d share the solution which I found and consider the simplest. So, we’re supposing the already existing database is called library_development and you can
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