Rails Spree demands account creation after bootstrapping without sample data

I'm using the Spree Rails gem for my ecommerce site. During development I've been using the sample data. After re-bootstrapping the database using "rake db:bootstrap" and this time NOT loading sample data, any time I go to any page on my site, it redire开发者_JAVA技巧cts me to /users/new.

I have removed all my custom route rules.

Any ideas why this is happening?

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Turns out that (I'm pretty sure) the problem was due to there being no records in the 'users' table, as Spree apparently requires at least one user of role admin.