Hi All, I''ve taken a look at the rails API, and per it, I should be able to say: map.root :controller => ''controller_name'' . . .however, ''mongrel_rails start'' seems to fail giving me an error: ** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000 ** Starting Rails with development environment... /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/ action_controller/routing.rb:965:in `build'': Illegal route: the :controller must be specified! (ArgumentError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/ action_controller/routing.rb:1172:in `add_route'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/ action_controller/routing.rb:1178:in `add_named_route'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/ action_controller/routing.rb:997:in `root_without_deprecation'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/ active_support/deprecation.rb:94:in `root'' from /Users/michwill/RUBY_PROJECTS/michael/config/../config/ routes.rb:2 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/ action_controller/routing.rb:1139:in `draw'' from /Users/michwill/RUBY_PROJECTS/michael/config/../config/ routes.rb:1 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:488:in `load'' ... 21 levels... from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/ mongrel/command.rb:211:in `run'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/ mongrel_rails:243 from /usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails:16:in `load'' from /usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails:16 Any ideas? Thanks, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---