In this chapter, we covered a brief overview of the Ruby on Rails platform, looked at different coding tools, got our development environment set up, and started building our application. We decided to use the Twitter Bootstrap framework to make our views responsive and reduce our frontend coding time. Finally, we checked everything into source control and deployed it to Heroku, which is a scalable cloud service that makes hosting Rails sites a breeze.

We now have a functioning website that we can expand to create our contest application. We'll be developing using an iterative approach, with regular commits to source control and deployments to Heroku to keep our production environment up to date.

In the next chapter, we will start with a high-level overview of the application, build the core business logic, and connect it privately to a Shopify test store.