# Rails: Static Pages

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## Rails Generate:

* Rails provides a handy generator which ensures that all necessary files are generated for a given controller. To generate a controller and its views, type the following on your command line in your project's directory:
```
$ rails generate controller welcome index about
```
The output should look like this:
```
create  app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb
 route  get 'welcome/about'
 route  get 'welcome/index'
invoke  erb
create    app/views/welcome
create    app/views/welcome/index.html.erb
create    app/views/welcome/about.html.erb
invoke  helper
create    app/helpers/welcome_helper.rb
invoke  assets
invoke    js
create      app/assets/javascripts/welcome.js
invoke    scss
create      app/assets/stylesheets/welcome.scss
```
* We passed three arguments to the rails generate command. The first argument represents the controller name, which is welcome. The next two arguments (index and about) represent views corresponding with the welcome controller. We could've named the controller and views anything, but the names should correspond with their primary function, as a best practice.