WELCOME IN VANILLA Vanilla vanilla .........vanillaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA What you've got: Gemfile - specifying your dependencies config.ru - this is the rack configuration, which is used to start the application by your webserver soup/ - the default soup directory, where your snips are stored For an overview of vanilla, start your site and look at the tutorial: $ rackup # then open http://localhost:9292/tutorial Editing snips ------------- You can edit any file in the soup directory using your favourite editor, and the changes will be reflected automatically. The snip files are slightly modified YAML files. Here's an example, which you might save in a file called 'soup.snip': Soup is a data store supporting the {link_to snip}-space that {link_to vanilla-rb} expects. It's hosted on github [here](http://github.com/lazyatom/soup). :created_at: 2011-05-23 14:14:16 +01:00 :updated_at: 2009-05-23 15:23:22 +01:00 :render_as: Markdown The 'content' of the snip is at the top of the file, followed by the rest of the snip attributes on lines starting with ':'. The console ----------- Within a vanilla app directory, you can run `vanilla console` to start an IRB session and interact with your app and snips. The `app` method returns your application object, and `app.soup['start']` will return the start snip from your soup(s).