I highly recommend Bort when you’re starting a new Ruby on Rails project. Assuming you’re using MySQL, the following steps are all that are necessary to get started:

1. Download and unzip Bort into project folder
2. Edit the database.yml and the settings.yml files
3. Create the database: mysqladmin -u <username> -p create <db_name_development>
4. If you’re using Dreamhost: add ‘host: mysql.<dbhostname>.com’ to your database.yml file (in the production environment)
5. rake db:migrate