How to add a Page to your Rails app

⚠️ This is how to add a page without any interaction with the model.

Create a route 🛤️

1. Go to config > routes.rb file
2. In the Rails.application.routes.draw method, enter a route using the syntax: [request type] "[URL]", to: "[controller]#[action]"

Create a controller 👨‍✈️

1. Go to app > controllers folder
2. Create a file named [route]_controller.rb, e.g. about_controller.rb
3. Create a class named [Route]Controller and inherit from ApplicationController
4. Define a method named [action from routes.rb], e.g. index

Create a view 🏞️

1. Go to app > views folder
2. Create a folder named [route]
3. In that folder create a file named [action.html.erb]
4. Add HTML (and ERB)

View new page 👀

1. Go to http://localhost:3000/about

2. You’ll see the new page
   

3. Open Web Inspector
   👀 You’ll see the request from the browser and the response from the server for the GET request to the /about URL.
   

4. View the page’s source code
   👀 You’ll see the content that Rails added code from app > views > layouts > application.html.erb and inserted the code from index.html.erb inside the <%= yield => ERB tag.