--- title: New Ruby on Rails application and Static pages - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 2 slug: new-ruby-on-rails-application-and-static-pages-creatorplatform-xyz-part-2 published_at: 2022-09-07 10:24:18 +0000 updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:13:15 +0000 summary: description: We'll set up a new Ruby on Rails 7 application in this video. We'll create a StaticPages controller for handling requests to our root route. Finally, we'll create and migrate the database. 00:00 Introduction 01:02 Create StaticPages controller 01:48 Set up routes 02:54 Start the server 03:13 Create and migrate the database 03:54 Conclusion Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6F722u-R6IJfBrIRx3a2SBkAL4vUp2p Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/creators.dev/ Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjav_dev #rubyonrails #ruby #rails tags: [cjav_dev, web development tutorials, web development for beginners, vim, ruby, rails, ruby on rails, active record, ruby on rails tutorial, web development, web development tutorial, creatorplatform.xyz, New Ruby on Rails application and Static pages - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 2, static pages, StaticPages, New Ruby on Rails 7 application, Rails 7, Rails 7 tutorial, Rails 7 static pages, Rails 7 basic pages, Rails 7 landing page, TailwindUI] views: 2470 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/new-ruby-on-rails-application-and-static-pages-creatorplatform-xyz-part-2 youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwbmKqdDsyI youtube_id: MwbmKqdDsyI embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/MwbmKqdDsyI thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MwbmKqdDsyI/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # New Ruby on Rails application and Static pages - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 2 *Published: September 07, 2022* *Views: 2470* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwbmKqdDsyI) [![New Ruby on Rails application and Static pages - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MwbmKqdDsyI/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwbmKqdDsyI) ## Description We'll set up a new Ruby on Rails 7 application in this video. We'll create a StaticPages controller for handling requests to our root route. Finally, we'll create and migrate the database. 00:00 Introduction 01:02 Create StaticPages controller 01:48 Set up routes 02:54 Start the server 03:13 Create and migrate the database 03:54 Conclusion Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6F722u-R6IJfBrIRx3a2SBkAL4vUp2p Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/creators.dev/ Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjav_dev #rubyonrails #ruby #rails ## Transcript all right in this episode we're going to break ground on our brand new creator platform so i'm actually going to run rails new and we're going to call this creators and we're going to use dash c because we're going to enable tailwind css we're using j because we're going to use the es build javascript settings and we're going to use postgresql we want to skip any default tests if we add tests we're going to add them with our spec and we want to use the main branch by default so this is going to go and download rails from github it's going to install a bunch of stuff and we'll be off to the races we're going to generate a new controller called the static pages controller where we're going to have a root route and we're going to call that good and the next episode we'll set up devise for authentication so here we can cd into our creator platform this is a great spot for us to commit all of the things that were initially added so i'm going to say git add dash a get commit dash m initial we're going to generate a new controller that we're going to use for any static pages this includes our route sort of landing page or marketing page maybe if we have a terms of service privacy policy all of those kind of static pages pricing pages those will all be part of a static pages route so we're going to say rails g controller static pages and this is going to have a root route to start so when you generate a controller when we say rails g controller we can have this generate a brand new controller by passing the name of the controller and then any views that we want to automatically generate we can pass those here so if we wanted an index and a show and a new we could pass those as other arguments here now we have a new controller that we can use on the server side to respond to requests so we're going to open up our routes file here and inside of our routes file we're going to add a root route we can say root and this is going to be to the static pages controllers root action so here we're using the pound sign or the octothorpe to tell it which specific action on this static pages controller we want to execute this is just a convention the name static underscore pages here aligns with our static pages controller so this class static pages controller will be initialized an instance of it will be initialized and then we're going to call this root route where we can write any logic that we want to execute when the root is rendered now by default we're going to have a render root method this is the default when you have an action this says to render the template that is called root so if we look into our views directory under static pages we have this root.html.erb template this is the page that's going to render so we've got a static pages controller set up we have a root route if we come over to another tab here we can say bin slash dev and this will fire up all of our services and get an application up and running so now we can go to localhost 3000 and hit enter and that will attempt to load that root route because we just created our application rails expects for there to be a database available called creators underscore development we've never actually created the database and we could either go into postgres and create a new database with that name but there are some helpful utilities inside of rails where we can say rails db create rails db colon create that will create the database and now we can say railsdb colon migrate which will run any of our migrations that we have now migrations are ruby files that will translate into sql that are going to modify the underlying database we don't have any of those yet but know that we'll have to come back and run that later when we actually set up a database all right so now we have our static page running for the root action at this point we're going to call that good for the first episode in the next episode we'll come back and we'll add devise authentication see you soon [Music] --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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