diff --git a/app/controllers/fruits_controller.rb b/app/controllers/fruits_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0305a7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/fruits_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+class FruitsController < ApplicationController
+    def index
+        # render({ :json => { :message => 'hi', :status => 200 } })
+        # render json: message: 'hi', status: 200 # doesn't work because nested objects are unguessable
+        render json: { message: 'hi', status: 200 }
+    end
+end
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 787824f..144c764 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 Rails.application.routes.draw do
   # For details on the DSL available within this file, see http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
+  get '/fruits', to: 'fruits#index'
+  # get('/fruits', { :to => 'fruits#index' })
 end