diff --git a/app/controllers/home_controller.rb b/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..95f2992
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+class HomeController < ApplicationController
+  def index
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/views/home/index.html.slim b/app/views/home/index.html.slim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15ecd50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/home/index.html.slim
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+h1 Home#index
+p Find me in app/views/home/index.html.slim
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index fc2791d..03b07dc 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Rails.application.routes.draw do
+  get 'home/index'
+
   devise_for :users
+
+  root 'home#index'
   # The priority is based upon order of creation: first created -> highest priority.
   # See how all your routes lay out with "rake routes".
 
diff --git a/spec/controllers/home_controller_spec.rb b/spec/controllers/home_controller_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/controllers/home_controller_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+require 'rails_helper'
+
+RSpec.describe HomeController, :type => :controller do
+
+  describe "GET index" do
+    it "returns http success" do
+      get :index
+      expect(response).to be_success
+    end
+  end
+
+end