diff --git a/examples/rocket_example/api/Rocket.toml b/examples/rocket_example/Rocket.toml
similarity index 91%
rename from examples/rocket_example/api/Rocket.toml
rename to examples/rocket_example/Rocket.toml
index fc294bd2f..41e0183c9 100644
--- a/examples/rocket_example/api/Rocket.toml
+++ b/examples/rocket_example/Rocket.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [default]
-template_dir = "templates/"
+template_dir = "api/templates/"
 
 [default.databases.sea_orm]
 # Mysql
diff --git a/examples/rocket_example/api/Cargo.toml b/examples/rocket_example/api/Cargo.toml
index e0d718d8e..1a88308fc 100644
--- a/examples/rocket_example/api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/rocket_example/api/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ rocket_dyn_templates = { version = "0.1.0-rc.1", features = [
 serde_json = { version = "^1" }
 entity = { path = "../entity" }
 migration = { path = "../migration" }
+tokio = "1.20.0"
 
 [dependencies.sea-orm-rocket]
 path = "../../../sea-orm-rocket/lib" # remove this line in your own project and use the git line
diff --git a/examples/rocket_example/api/src/lib.rs b/examples/rocket_example/api/src/lib.rs
index f283b1015..51918c7a3 100644
--- a/examples/rocket_example/api/src/lib.rs
+++ b/examples/rocket_example/api/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate rocket;
 
-use futures::executor::block_on;
 use rocket::fairing::{self, AdHoc};
 use rocket::form::{Context, Form};
 use rocket::fs::{relative, FileServer};
@@ -144,7 +143,8 @@ async fn run_migrations(rocket: Rocket<Build>) -> fairing::Result {
     Ok(rocket)
 }
 
-fn rocket() -> Rocket<Build> {
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn start() -> Result<(), rocket::Error> {
     rocket::build()
         .attach(Db::init())
         .attach(AdHoc::try_on_ignite("Migrations", run_migrations))
@@ -155,10 +155,13 @@ fn rocket() -> Rocket<Build> {
         )
         .register("/", catchers![not_found])
         .attach(Template::fairing())
+        .launch()
+        .await
+        .map(|_| ())
 }
 
 pub fn main() {
-    let result = block_on(rocket().launch());
+    let result = start();
 
     println!("Rocket: deorbit.");