title: Why is my development server not loading? default_controller_and_action': missing :action (ArgumentError)
body: <p>I'm a Ruby nuby (and new to Stack Overflow) working on the <a href="http://railstutorial.org/chapters/modeling-and-viewing-users-one#sec:model_annotation" rel="noreferrer">Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl</a> and all of a sudden my development server <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oB7fJ.png" rel="noreferrer">won't load and keeps exiting</a>. Console also won't load and Rspec spec/ produces errors/exceptions. I am including some output from the terminal, your help is much appreciated.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exiting
  /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:164:in `default_controller_and_action': missing :action (ArgumentError)
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:68:in `normalize_options!'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:51:in `initialize'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:261:in `new'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:261:in `match'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:1112:in `match'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:1297:in `match'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/rails_projects/railstutorial/config/routes.rb:11:in `block in &lt;top (required)&gt;'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:233:in `instance_exec'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:233:in `draw'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/rails_projects/railstutorial/config/routes.rb:1:in `&lt;top (required)&gt;'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:235:in `load'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:235:in `block in load'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:225:in `block in load_dependency'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:596:in `new_constants_in'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:225:in `load_dependency'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:235:in `load'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application.rb:127:in `block in reload_routes!'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application.rb:127:in `each'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application.rb:127:in `reload_routes!'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application.rb:120:in `block in routes_reloader'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/file_update_checker.rb:32:in `call'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/file_update_checker.rb:32:in `execute_if_updated'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application/finisher.rb:51:in `block (2 levels) in &lt;module:Finisher&gt;'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application/finisher.rb:52:in `call'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application/finisher.rb:52:in `block in &lt;module:Finisher&gt;'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:25:in `instance_exec'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:25:in `run'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:50:in `block in run_initializers'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:49:in `each'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:49:in `run_initializers'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application.rb:134:in `initialize!'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application.rb:77:in `method_missing'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/rails_projects/railstutorial/config/environment.rb:5:in `&lt;top (required)&gt;'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/rails_projects/railstutorial/config.ru:3:in `require'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/rails_projects/railstutorial/config.ru:3:in `block in &lt;main&gt;'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:46:in `instance_eval'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:46:in `initialize'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/rails_projects/railstutorial/config.ru:1:in `new'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/rails_projects/railstutorial/config.ru:1:in `&lt;main&gt;'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:35:in `eval'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:35:in `parse_file'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/server.rb:162:in `app'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/server.rb:248:in `wrapped_app'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/server.rb:213:in `start'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/commands/server.rb:65:in `start'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/commands.rb:30:in `block in &lt;top (required)&gt;'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/commands.rb:27:in `tap'
      from /Users/ameedachowdhury/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/commands.rb:27:in `&lt;top (required)&gt;'
      from script/rails:6:in `require'
      from script/rails:6:in `&lt;main&gt;'
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