Step by Step Guide to using Cursor AI to Add a Blog (with Markdown support) to a Ruby on Rails App

In this multi-step AI prompt project, I will go over how to add a Blog (with Markdown formatting support) to your existing Ruby on Rails webapp. It 's not the most complex process, but there may be some gotchas that come up when adding this to an existing RoR app.

For this workflow, I will be using Cursor AI, but the process should work similarly for other AI-powered code editors and tools.

We are going to assume you already have a User model that you'd like to integrate with the Blog, so that Posts belong to users.

I had to tell Cursor to do this. I think it's a cleaner approach overall and cuts down on code updating to modify the form views, etc.

If you are using a dark theme, it may have generated labels & text that are hard to read. I had to give it this prompt to update the views to work better with my dark theme:

My theme is a dark mode theme. Please update the new blog posts controller views to work better with a dark mode theme. text colors and labels should be white, etc

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