?? It's created by default: /app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
Kind of the whole point of "layouts" is to wrap content with all that
"boilerplate" automatically. It sounds like your app is basically broken.
I would generate a new app, add your controller and one of your
static pages and play around with that to see how it works, and how
your own app differs.
Re-reading <
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html>
might help, too.
HTH,
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