--- title: Adding a landing page to Rails with TailwindUI slug: adding-a-landing-page-to-rails-with-tailwindui published_at: 2021-05-14 17:00:13 +0000 updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:14:12 +0000 summary: description: Learn how to use the marketing pages available in TailwindUI to create a landing page in a rails application. We briefly talk about using a custom layout per Controller. In a future episode we’ll refactor further to support multiple marketing pages. #rails #rubyonrails tags: [Rails, Ruby on Rails, View templates, Ruby on Rails view templates, Ruby, Tailwind, TailwindUI, Rails and tailwind UI, Render a custom rails layout, Custom rails layout for controller] views: 1690 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/adding-a-landing-page-to-rails-with-tailwindui youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1FgkYtrGU0 youtube_id: G1FgkYtrGU0 embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/G1FgkYtrGU0 thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G1FgkYtrGU0/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Adding a landing page to Rails with TailwindUI *Published: May 14, 2021* *Views: 1690* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1FgkYtrGU0) [![Adding a landing page to Rails with TailwindUI](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G1FgkYtrGU0/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1FgkYtrGU0) ## Description Learn how to use the marketing pages available in TailwindUI to create a landing page in a rails application. We briefly talk about using a custom layout per Controller. In a future episode we’ll refactor further to support multiple marketing pages. #rails #rubyonrails ## Transcript hey in this episode you're going to learn how to build out a marketing page using the tailwind ui components that they have for marketing pages you'll also see uh how to approach or how i generally approach setting up static pages like your terms and conditions privacy pages and all those sort of normal pages that you would have outside of the logged in like authenticated views so right now we are working on building out this form for tracker for tracking insider trades that happen on the sec we have kind of like a list of all the filings that are happening for insiders that are trading on the sec and then at the top these are those that we think should notify folks about and now we're at the point where maybe we want to like actually charge money or like sell this or help help sort of get the word out about this concept and so the next step is really to build like a marketing page or some sort of landing page for for the application actually really in reality right like if you're building an app like this you should get customer feedback and probably build a landing page before building the app but i'm doing this sort of for fun and uh so that i can help teach other folks how i generally approach all these different pieces and parts at the same time i am actually trading some of these ideas so um in fact one just popped up on there got our we got an email that says chuck should is worth looking at nine minutes ago we got a little notification the way that i generally like to build these pages is by having a static pages controllers we already have a static pages controller here and instead of having all the conventional rails routes for create index show update delete or all of those right instead we're going to just have single routes and we'll call them like root uh terms maybe like privacy and these will act as rails routes where we can just render back a template that will for the most part just be static content but this allows us to use data from rails if we want to extend it even further later so if we go to the root route right now and in fact like one other thing here is that we don't actually want to authenticate the user before they see the root page so i'm actually going to remove that and then we're going to you know refactor this root.html.erb template so that it shows our sort of marketing page i'm just going to delete all of this all this content here and then go to tailwind ui and let's take a look at some of these components sign in okay so tailwind has like a couple different packages and pricing models so like you can you can buy the marketing pages by themselves and you can also buy the application pages by themselves i got like the whole kit that has all the different pieces and components and so what i want to do now is just kind of like look at the marketing page marketing page sections i might even just like look directly at these landing pages right because this is kind of the piece that we're on now is um figuring out what the landing page might look like okay so this this first one we've got background image hero with alternating features okay and then there's another one here illustrated hero with screenshot section okay um and then the last one is simple with offset screenshot hero okay so i think the one that i like the most is probably this first one sure so we'll grab the code for this entire thing so i'm just going to copy this entire html thing and then drop it in here and it's pretty massive and it's going to require like going through in quite a bit of detail and figuring out what each of the pieces do and updating those but let's just take a look and see what we've got now so if we go to the root route now we see okay so this is great we don't want this header though um because that's not this is like the header when you're authenticated and so we've run into a little bit of a problem right because right now we want to make a new sort of landing page which has a different layout so right now we have the application layout and the application layout is where we're handling all of this the the navigation at the top and you know becomes responsive and has a bunch of stuff for the application so what i would uh often do is create a custom layout that is specific to our marketing pages so we can come over here and say layouts add marketing dot html.erb and then let's actually paste in let's copy what we had in static root over to the marketing layout and we'll save that and then what we want to do is um if we refresh the page nothing is showing now because this is just like the blank application layout so what we need to do is go to our controller static pages controller and you can change the layout either from inside of a an individual controller action i think you can also just change it from for the entire contr for the entire controller for all the actions on the controller so i think for this one we want to do it for everything in the controller we're just going to say layout marketing i think that might work okay yeah layout i just did it instead of maybe it's just supposed to be a string let's see okay so it's supposed to be a string and it looks super nasty okay so i know i think i know what's going on so in the marketing layout that we just created we don't have like the same head tags or anything so we need to go back to application html erb and make sure that we grab all of this head in fact like we also need like the body i think and then we'll go to the bottom and add an an end body tag and an end html tag and let's see what we got now okay so now we're back to a much cleaner ui right or much cleaner much cleaner look thing here it says it requires javascript um i don't actually know whether the javascript is included as part of this or not like i i have a sense that you just get the um yeah like you just kind of get the the html the direct html but no javascript if you're using the html version um so i think we're going to have to implement some of this ourselves um so if we go back to the preview solutions pricing partners company so yeah what do we actually want on this page like what are people going to be looking for i think pricing is probably one of them and maybe we just start with just pricing so let's do that so if we come over to marketing page um technically you could break out some of these menu items or the like different pieces of this ui into partials like rails partials and then edit those individually but i think it's probably okay to just say like okay let's grab let's grab the div that's inside of this nav element so i searched for solutions because i know this is like the thing that i want to probably remove remove solutions and all of the stuff that's nested under it and then we'll just have like pricing and that's probably it pricing sign up sign in and then we'll just remove solutions entirely the reason why i'm going to the div that's inside of the nav is my hunch is that when i inspect this that is the yeah so the div here that's inside of the nav like the nav is all of the navigation items and then the div is just going to be that first one so let's go through and delete that and then the way that i do this in vim is i'm just going to like visually select right where that angle bracket is and drag down and sort of assume that the indentation is correct and hopefully i'm deleting all the right stuff okay so now we should have just pricing partners and company and we do take control of your customer support so now we'd have to like figure out what copy we actually want to write here and that's kind of tricky um so let's just let's just start out with just like a pricing page and we'll say that this goes to like slash pricing and we we haven't defined that yet but we'll go back and define that and then our sign in and sign out links users sign in so this should go to like users sign in and this one should go to users sign up okay so we're just going to kind of like work our way down the page from the top deleting pieces deleting bits and pieces and then adding only what we need so if we click sign in now then i think wait user sign in we're being redirected back to the root oh maybe it's because we're already signed in alright so if we go back to the application and go to cookies clear our cookies refresh the page and then go to the sign in page okay so now we see the sign in we probably don't want the application layout on the sign in page so we're going to need to figure out how to like tell devise about that but for now that's probably good and then the sign up page brings us to the sign up page that's great and pricing brings us to a page that doesn't exist yet but we will create that um okay so we're gonna yeah edit some of this hero page probably i want to take a screenshot of what the dashboard looks like and then we can put that here stay on top of form four deliveries uh better understand what insiders are doing get started and then both of those will just go to like the either the pricing page or the sign up page in fact sign up should probably also drop into pricing maybe and then down here yep you know all the different reasons why you might follow form fours or something get actionable insights about insider filings happening on the sec and then we can pull this type of data directly from like how many forms we have in the database and then here we go ready to get started get in touch or create an account learn more or get started all right so all right let's get in and try to write some copy this is going to take a little bit of thinking so i'm not going to talk at the same time that i'm doing it um all right so [Music] all right so make my way down the the page here and now we're on the point where we're talking about these stats so we've got 8k plus companies 25k plus countries 98 customer satisfaction and then number of issues resolved so the core metrics that i think or the valuable metrics that i think are worth sharing here is uh sure how many companies how many forms or how many trades we've currently tracked and then maybe like how many notifications we've sent or something um and then uh i'm not sure what we can put last here but i'm sure oh maybe insiders so maybe we do actually maybe we do forms and companies which are going to be the two top and then we can do number of insiders and the numbers sent but there is kind of like a tricky thing that we need to do and that is to like show a number in this like human readable format and so if we look at the html here we see that this is like just hard coded as 8k plus right now and so we can actually print out the company.count because we have access to the database because we're in an erb template here and we see that it's like 8615. we want that to say 8k um and so there is a like number two human method in rails that's going to make this a human readable number but now it's like 8.62 000 instead of k and so we need to actually like do some translation here with which we can do like in our localization files so there's actually like a nice little um stack overflow post here so we want to go to config locales and then en.yaml so we're going to go to config locales en.yaml and the thing that we want to override is we want to override this number so now we should be able to just drop this in and i think let's see if that works just out of the box 8.2 um so that's it's supposed to be nested here so number and then human should be nested one layer deeper there we go so now we see 8.62 k um and like 62.62 i don't know like there's arguments that we can pass to uh number two human so let's look up number two human um so that we can shorten it because we want to round it probably just to like the integer so number two human precision so we can probably pass number two human we're gonna pass the actual number and then we'll pass precision like one or something okay so 9k um so now it's rounding up though uh and we probably want it to round down um let's see sets the precision of the number significant if true precision will be the number of significant digits separator delimiter units format rays okay so can we not go down um precision why don't we just make it precision two and then we'll have something point something okay 8.6 k plus i think i'm happy with that so i'm just going to remove this and we'll keep the plus on there and that looks good so that's how many companies we have and that's actually like how many we see so companies um with um trades okay and then the next number we wanted to share was like the number of filings so we can do this a similar thing so number two human for form 4 dot count and then precision 2 and then we'll just leave the plus there and that should give us and okay so there's a couple of things to think about here when you're doing this like number one is do you actually want to hard code the class name directly into your view or do you want to create some like stats instance variable in the controller and then pass that down this is it's a little bit easier to do it this way where it's just like directly in the view but if you ever change the name of this this like if you ever change the name of a class or if you want this count method to do something different or if you change like the default scopes on on these objects then you might get some wacky behavior in the um in this landing page right and so that's just something to keep in mind you might want to actually like create this as an instance variable in the in the controller and pass it down rather than just you know writing our active record query directly in some erb template that's like front and center on the marketing page and this one we're going to call it notifications and we'll say notifications sent to our users just like you okay or like could be you winky face um yeah a little bit like i don't know a little bit cheeky that's all right so ready to get started get in touch or create an account um so we don't want them to get in touch but we could say ready to get so every time we see get started i'm just making that go to the pricing page and um okay so that that's looking pretty good we've got like some copy that makes sense these images don't make any sense i added like a little bit of copy here this again goes to the pricing page we definitely need to like go through and update this i was thinking about trying out copy ai which is a tool that helps generate um copyright based on gpt threes like super cool machine learning algorithms um so maybe that'll be something for a future episode but i think for now this is probably pretty solid um okay let's let's call that good and uh yeah i hope you enjoyed and we'll see in the next one --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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