Why is my development server not loading? default_controller_and_action': missing :action (ArgumentError)

Question

I\'m a Ruby nuby (and new to Stack Overflow) working on the Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl and all of a sudden my development server won\'t load and keeps exiting. Console

Answer 1

change your default root in the routes.rb file.

get "static_pages#home"  TO root to: 'static_pages#home'

I've gone through the same issue, and the above change worked for me.