How to connect to a new sqlite db for first time

[jsoneaday]

I'm trying to create and connect to a sqlite db for first time. The url path is file://cudb.db and the code is below. The code fails at connect_with as "invalid uri authority: cu.db". The cu.db file does not exist I am trying to create it and connect. What should I be doing?

let options = SqliteConnectOptions::from_str(url)?
        .pragma("encoding", "UTF-8")
        .journal_mode(SqliteJournalMode::Wal);

    Ok(SqlitePool::connect_with(options).await.unwrap())

[jsoneaday]

I switched to using sqlite://cu.db and that creates the db but I get a new error "called Result::unwrap() on an Err value: Database(SqliteError { code: 1, message: "near "-": syntax error" })"