ActionController::RoutingError No route matches [GET] "/stories" - ruby-on-rails

Question

OS: openSUSE 11.4
Rails 3.2.0
I just created a very simple application "koko". Here are the order of commands I ran
rails new koko
rails generate model Story name:string description:string
rake db:migrate
rails generate controller Stories index
All above commands executed successfully.
I then ran =>rails server to start the server.
localhost:3000/ works fine.
When i try to do
localhost:3000/stores I get the following error: (the browser displayes the first line about No route matches)
Started GET "/stories" for 127.0.0.1 at Sat Aug 04 12:52:02 -0400 2012
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/stories"):
actionpack (3.2.0) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/debug_exceptions.rb:21:in `call'
actionpack (3.2.0) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/show_exceptions.rb:56:in `call'
railties (3.2.0) lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:26:in `call_app'
railties (3.2.0) lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:16:in `call'
actionpack (3.2.0) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/request_id.rb:22:in `call'
rack (1.4.1) lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:21:in `call'
rack (1.4.1) lib/rack/runtime.rb:17:in `call'
activesupport (3.2.0) lib/active_support/cache/strategy/local_cache.rb:72:in `call'
rack (1.4.1) lib/rack/lock.rb:15:in `call'
actionpack (3.2.0) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb:53:in `call'
railties (3.2.0) lib/rails/engine.rb:479:in `call'
railties (3.2.0) lib/rails/application.rb:220:in `call'
rack (1.4.1) lib/rack/content_length.rb:14:in `call'
railties (3.2.0) lib/rails/rack/log_tailer.rb:14:in `call'
rack (1.4.1) lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:59:in `service'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in `service'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start_thread'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in `start'
rack (1.4.1) lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:13:in `run'
rack (1.4.1) lib/rack/server.rb:265:in `start'
railties (3.2.0) lib/rails/commands/server.rb:70:in `start'
railties (3.2.0) lib/rails/commands.rb:55
railties (3.2.0) lib/rails/commands.rb:50:in `tap'
railties (3.2.0) lib/rails/commands.rb:50
script/rails:6:in `require'
script/rails:6
Rendered /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-3.2.0/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/routing_error.erb within rescues/layout (0.9ms)

Answer 1

Your issue is that you are trying to use a RESTful interface to a non-RESTful resource. You made a model, and you made a controller with an index action, (/controller_name/action).
If you are happy with using /stories/index, then we're done! If you prefer the more traditional RESTful interface /stories, then I would suggest using:
rails generate resource ModelName fields:types.
This will create a Model and a Controller, and should work restfully out of the box. This will set up the route that was mentioned in the comments.
Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You might simply have some naming problems. Generally, when creating a controller it should be
rails g controller stories index
or
rails g controller Story index
Then change your automatically-generated route to
match "/stories" => "stories#index", :as => "stories"