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Let's continue exploring the Rails
console with create operations.

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We can create new records in the database
by creating new model objects,

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setting their attributes,
and then saving the objects.

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We can create a new post
object by calling Post.new.

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So let's create a new post, and
assign it to a variable, post = Post.new.

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Notice that the Post class name is
capitalized whereas the variable name is

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all lowercase.

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You can see the objects we got
in the Rails console output.

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Notice that its attributes
are all set to nil.

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You can set the attributes the same way
you would on any other Ruby object.

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Let's assign a title for this new post.

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We'll say post.title = "Hello,

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console!" And

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right now this object only exists in your
system's memory, not in the database.

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If we were to call Post.all again on
the Post class, It won't show up.

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To store it in the database, we need
to call the save method on the object,

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post.save.

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Notice we're calling save on
the objects referenced by the variable,

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not on the Post class with a capital P.

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We'll see an SQL query that inserts
a new post in that the posts table with

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the title we assigned, INSERT INTO "posts"
with title, created_at, and update values.

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And the value for title is "Hello,
console!" just like we entered before.

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If we run Post.all again,
this time we'll see that our "Hello,

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console!" post gets
included in the results.

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Every model object you save to the
database gets a value written to its ID

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database column.

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Notice that our post object didn't
have an ID when we first created it.

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But now that we've saved our post object,

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if we look at it again,
we'll see that it's had an ID assigned.

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As we saw before,

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you can pass an object's id to the find
method to look it back up later.

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So if we type Post class.find and

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an ID of 4, there's our "Hello,
console!" post again.