diff --git a/createdb.py b/createdb.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..919a619f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/createdb.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import rida.config
+import rida.database
+
+config = rida.config.from_file("rida.conf")
+
+rida.database.Database.create_tables(config.db, True)
diff --git a/rida/database.py b/rida/database.py
index c73f0358..758aa514 100644
--- a/rida/database.py
+++ b/rida/database.py
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ Base = declarative_base()
 class Database(object):
     """Class for handling database connections."""
 
-    def __init__(self, rdburl=None):
+    def __init__(self, rdburl=None, debug=False):
         """Initialize the database object."""
         if not isinstance(rdburl, str):
             rdburl = "sqlite:///rida.db"
-        engine = create_engine(rdburl)
+        engine = create_engine(rdburl, echo=debug)
         Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
         self._session = Session()
 
@@ -47,6 +47,23 @@ class Database(object):
         """Database session object."""
         return self._session
 
+    @classmethod
+    def create_tables(cls, db_url, debug=False):
+        """ Creates our tables in the database.
+
+        :arg db_url, URL used to connect to the database. The URL contains
+        information with regards to the database engine, the host to connect
+        to, the user and password and the database name.
+        ie: <engine>://<user>:<password>@<host>/<dbname>
+        :kwarg debug, a boolean specifying wether we should have the verbose
+        output of sqlalchemy or not.
+        :return a Database connection that can be used to query to db.
+        """
+        engine = create_engine(db_url, echo=debug)
+        Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
+        return cls(db_url, debug=debug)
+
+
 class Module(Base):
     __tablename__ = "modules"
     id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)