Root Generating 500 error

[shammond42]

I've got a simple, new Rails 2.3.5 application. The app has an about controller and a hello action. /about/hello works fine with or without hassle. The routes file has this line.

map.root :controller => 'about', :action => 'hello'

And browsing to the '/' url works without hassle. With Hassle, I get this error.

Status: 500 Internal Server Error
You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occurred while evaluating nil.index
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/static.rb:28:in call' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:105:inany?'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/static.rb:28:in each' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/static.rb:28:inany?'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/static.rb:28:in call' /Users/shammond/src/collection/vendor/plugins/hassle/lib/hassle.rb:18:incall'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/haml-edge-2.3.209/rails/../lib/sass/plugin/rack.rb:44:in call' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/string_coercion.rb:25:incall'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/head.rb:9:in call' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:24:incall'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/params_parser.rb:15:in call' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/cookie_store.rb:93:incall'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/failsafe.rb:26:in call' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:incall'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:in synchronize' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:incall'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:114:in call' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/reloader.rb:34:inrun'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:108:in call' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:44:indispatch_cgi'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:101:in dispatch_cgi' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:27:indispatch'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel/rails.rb:76:in process' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel/rails.rb:74:insynchronize'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel/rails.rb:74:in process' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb:159:inprocess_client'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb:158:in each' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb:158:inprocess_client'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb:285:in run' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb:285:ininitialize'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb:285:in new' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb:285:inrun'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb:268:in initialize' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb:268:innew'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb:268:in run' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:282:inrun'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:281:in each' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:281:inrun'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/mongrel_rails:128:in run' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/../lib/mongrel/command.rb:212:inrun'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/mongrel_rails:281
/opt/local/bin/mongrel_rails:19:in `load'
/opt/local/bin/mongrel_rails:19

Thanks,
Steve