Error Running Ruby on Rails App in Production Mode

Question

I'm just starting to use Ruby on Rails and I am going through a tutorial to get started. I have everything working for testing, so I can use a rails server command in the directory to make it show the basic "Welcome aboard" page that I want to see; however, when I change this to rails server -e production I suddenly only see the "The page you were looking for doesn't exist." page. When this happens, the command prompt shows:

[2013-08-07 19:54:26] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2013-08-07 19:54:26] INFO  ruby 1.9.3 (2013-06-27) [i386-mingw32]
[2013-08-07 19:54:26] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=12664 port=3000
I, [2013-08-07T19:54:26.515238 #12664]  INFO -- : Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1
at 2013-08-07 19:54:26 -0700
F, [2013-08-07T19:54:26.752394 #12664] FATAL -- :
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/"):
actionpack (4.0.0) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/debug_exceptions.rb:21:in `c
all'
actionpack (4.0.0) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/show_exceptions.rb:30:in `ca  
ll'
railties (4.0.0) lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:38:in `call_app'
railties (4.0.0) lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:21:in `block in call'
activesupport (4.0.0) lib/active_support/tagged_logging.rb:67:in `block in tag
ged'
activesupport (4.0.0) lib/active_support/tagged_logging.rb:25:in `tagged'
activesupport (4.0.0) lib/active_support/tagged_logging.rb:67:in `tagged'
railties (4.0.0) lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:21:in `call'
actionpack (4.0.0) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/request_id.rb:21:in `call'
rack (1.5.2) lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:21:in `call'
rack (1.5.2) lib/rack/runtime.rb:17:in `call'
activesupport (4.0.0) lib/active_support/cache/strategy/local_cache.rb:83:in `
call'
railties (4.0.0) lib/rails/engine.rb:511:in `call'
railties (4.0.0) lib/rails/application.rb:97:in `call'
rack (1.5.2) lib/rack/lock.rb:17:in `call'
rack (1.5.2) lib/rack/content_length.rb:14:in `call'
rack (1.5.2) lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:60:in `service'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:138:in `service'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:94:in `run'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/server.rb:191:in `block in start_thread'

This may seem very similar to a number of other questions, but I have tried a number of solutions that have all failed. Thank you for any possible help.

Answer 1

Indeed, this is the default behaviour for an application that has no routes. The "Welcome aboard" page is just an introduction for developers and is only shown in the development environment.