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It's time to take the training wheels off.

In our Rails Basics course, we created a simple blog app.

And we saw how to set up the model, view, and controller for

our posts resource automatically using a scaffold.

But we also learned that scaffolds don't offer you much control over how your

finished resource looks.

So in this course, we're going to create a resource completely from scratch.

We're also going to introduce a concept we haven't looked at thus far, Rails routes.

Routes are how Rails sends a particular request to the particular controller that

can handle it.

Here's what we're going to make in this course.

You've probably seen blogs that have pages in addition to posts.

These are usually permanent features like an About Me page or

a resume that are linked from the site's main menu.

The links are usually human readable too.

Instead of putting a page ID in the URL, an easily readable slug string is used.

This sounds useful for our blog.

So let's set up a Pages resource of our own.

We're just going to set the resource up for right now.

We'll create links that use the paid slugs in a later course.

In the first stage, we'll read all page records in the database and

display their titles in a list.

Since we won't yet have a form for adding pages,

we'll have to add some via the Rails console.

This first stage will be the most involved since we'll need to set up a route,

a controller, a view and a model for our pages.

In later stages, we'll just add features onto the base we've created.

We'll add the ability to read a single page record and display that by itself.

Then we'll set up a form that allows users to create new page records and

another form for updating existing pages.

Last, will let users delete pages they don't want anymore.

If you haven't completed Rails Basics yet, check the course page for a link there.

You'll need the Rails Basics blog app as a starter.

And remember to check the teacher's notes as you work through this course.

We'll have links to useful resources where you can learn more about each topic.

If you get stuck, be sure to post a question in the Treehouse community.

Bling, let's get started.