The First Signup

We can see the result of all this work by signing up our first user under the name ‘‘Rails Tutorial’’ and email address ‘‘example@railstutorial.org’’. The resulting page (Figure 7.20) shows a friendly message upon successful signup, including nice green styling for the success class, which comes included with the Bootstrap CSS framework from Section 5.1.2. (If instead you get an error message indicating that the email address has already been taken, be sure to run the db:reset Rake task as indicated in Section 7.2.) Then, upon reloading the user show page, the flash message disappears as promised (Figure 7.21).

              We can now check our database just to be double sure that the new user was actually created: