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title: Starting the Application
---
# Starting the application
We're a Rails app, and we use [Webpacker][webpacker] to manage some of our
JavaScript.
Start the application, Webpack, and our job runner [delayed_job][delayed_job] by
running:
```shell
bin/startup
```
(This just runs `foreman start -f Procfile.dev`, for notes on how to install
Foreman, please see [Other Tools](/installation/others/))
Then point your browser to http://localhost:3000/ to view the site.
If you run into issues while trying to run `bin/setup` and the error message
isn't helpful, try running `bin/rails s -p 3000`. For example, you may need to
`yarn install` before starting the app.
If you're working on DEV regularly, you can use `alias start="bin/startup"` to
make this even easier. 😊
If you're using **`pry`** for debugging in Rails, note that using `foreman` and
`pry` together works, but it's not as clean as `bin/rails server`.
Here are some singleton commands you may need, usually in a separate
instance/tab of your shell.
- Running the job server (if using `bin/rails server`) -- this is mostly for
notifications and emails: **`bin/rails jobs:work`**
- Clearing jobs (in case you don't want to wait for the backlog of jobs):
**`bin/rails jobs:clear`**
Current gotchas: potential environment issues with external services need to be
worked out.
[delayed_job]: https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job_active_record
[webpacker]: https://github.com/rails/webpacker