Creating a Rails app in workspace directory of Cloud9 IDE

Question

When I run rails new . hoping to create a new Rails app in my workspace directory, rails says:

Invalid application name 567101. Please give a name that does not start with numbers.

How do I get around this? I could just create it within the top level directory, but that seems inelegant. When you create a workspace and select "Rails" for the type it sets up the app nicely in the right place, but I want to set up a Rails 4 app, so that's not an option.

Answer 1

I was just trying to figure this out myself. What I ended up doing is creating a symbolic link to the numbered directory named rails_app. I was then able to do a rails new and have it create the application.

First

cd ~/

Then

ln -s ./567101 ./rails_app

Then

rails new ./rails_app