diff --git a/lib/hooks/cors/index.js b/lib/hooks/cors/index.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/csrf/index.js b/lib/hooks/csrf/index.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/grunt/index.js b/lib/hooks/grunt/index.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/http/index.js b/lib/hooks/http/index.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/http/initialize.js b/lib/hooks/http/initialize.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/http/middleware/defaults.js b/lib/hooks/http/middleware/defaults.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/http/middleware/load.js b/lib/hooks/http/middleware/load.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/http/start.js b/lib/hooks/http/start.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/http/view.js b/lib/hooks/http/view.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/i18n/index.js b/lib/hooks/i18n/index.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/index.js b/lib/hooks/index.js
@@ -42,22 +42,6 @@ module.exports = function(sails) {
        return cb();
      }

-      // Convenience config to bind routes before any of the static app routes
-      sails.on('router:before', function() {
-        _.each(self.routes.before, function(middleware, route) {
-          middleware._middlewareType = self.identity.toUpperCase() + ' HOOK' + (middleware.name ? (': ' + middleware.name) : '');
-          sails.router.bind(route, middleware);
-        });
-      });
-
-      // Convenience config to bind routes after the static app routes
-      sails.on('router:after', function() {
-        _.each(self.routes.after, function(middleware, route) {
-          middleware._middlewareType = self.identity.toUpperCase() + ' HOOK' + (middleware.name ? (': ' + middleware.name) : '');
-          sails.router.bind(route, middleware);
-        });
-      });
-
      /**
       * Apply hook default configuration to sails.config
       *
diff --git a/lib/hooks/moduleloader/index.js b/lib/hooks/moduleloader/index.js
@@ -11,13 +11,6 @@ module.exports = function(sails) {
  var buildDictionary = require('sails-build-dictionary');


-  // TODO:
-  // Look at improving `includeAll` to work asynchronously
-  // CommonJS `require` is a blocking operation, and makes apps
-  // start slower.
-
-
-
  /**
   * Module loader
   *
@@ -70,27 +63,9 @@ module.exports = function(sails) {

          // Server-Side Code
          //
-          // For `controllers` hook
-          controllers: path.resolve(config.appPath, 'api/controllers'),
-          // For `policies` hook
-          policies: path.resolve(config.appPath, 'api/policies'),
-          // For `services` hook
-          services: path.resolve(config.appPath, 'api/services'),
          // For `orm` hook
          adapters: path.resolve(config.appPath, 'api/adapters'),
          models: path.resolve(config.appPath, 'api/models'),
-          // For `userhooks` hook
-          hooks: path.resolve(config.appPath, 'api/hooks'),
-          // For `blueprints` hook
-          blueprints: path.resolve(config.appPath, 'api/blueprints'),
-          // For `responses` hook
-          responses: path.resolve(config.appPath, 'api/responses'),
-
-          // Server-Side HTML
-          //
-          // For `views` hook
-          views: path.resolve(config.appPath, 'views'),
-          layout: path.resolve(config.appPath, 'views/layout.ejs'),
        }
      };
    },
@@ -125,27 +100,9 @@ module.exports = function(sails) {

        // Server-Side Code
        //
-        // For `controllers` hook
-        controllers: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.controllers),
-        // For `policies` hook
-        policies: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.policies),
-        // For `services` hook
-        services: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.services),
        // For `orm` hook
        adapters: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.adapters),
-        models: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.models),
-        // For `userhooks` hook
-        hooks: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.hooks),
-        // For `blueprints` hook
-        blueprints: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.blueprints),
-        // For `responses` hook
-        responses: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.responses),
-
-        // Server-Side HTML
-        //
-        // For `views` hook
-        views: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.views),
-        layout: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.layout)
+        models: path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, sails.config.paths.models)
      });
    },

@@ -213,24 +170,6 @@ module.exports = function(sails) {



-    /**
-     * Load app controllers
-     *
-     * @param {Object} options
-     * @param {Function} cb
-     */
-    loadControllers: function (cb) {
-      buildDictionary.optional({
-        dirname: sails.config.paths.controllers,
-        filter: /(.+)Controller\.(js|coffee|litcoffee)$/,
-        flattenDirectories: true,
-        keepDirectoryPath: true,
-        replaceExpr: /Controller/
-      }, cb);
-    },
-
-
-

    /**
     * Load adapters
@@ -281,109 +220,6 @@ module.exports = function(sails) {



-
-    /**
-     * Load app services
-     *
-     * @param {Object} options
-     * @param {Function} cb
-     */
-    loadServices: function (cb) {
-      buildDictionary.optional({
-        dirname     : sails.config.paths.services,
-        filter      : /(.+)\.(js|coffee|litcoffee)$/,
-        depth     : 1,
-        caseSensitive : true
-      }, cb);
-    },
-
-
-
-    /**
-     * Check for the existence of views in the app
-     *
-     * @param {Object} options
-     * @param {Function} cb
-     */
-    statViews: function (cb) {
-      buildDictionary.optional({
-        dirname: sails.config.paths.views,
-        filter: /(.+)\..+$/,
-        replaceExpr: null,
-        dontLoad: true
-      }, cb);
-    },
-
-
-
-    /**
-     * Load app policies
-     *
-     * @param {Object} options
-     * @param {Function} cb
-     */
-    loadPolicies: function (cb) {
-      buildDictionary.optional({
-        dirname: sails.config.paths.policies,
-        filter: /(.+)\.(js|coffee|litcoffee)$/,
-        replaceExpr: null,
-        flattenDirectories: true,
-        keepDirectoryPath: true
-      }, cb);
-    },
-
-
-
-    /**
-     * Load app hooks
-     *
-     * @param {Object} options
-     * @param {Function} cb
-     */
-    loadUserHooks: function (cb) {
-      buildDictionary.optional({
-        dirname: sails.config.paths.hooks,
-        filter: /^(.+)\.(js|coffee|litcoffee)$/,
-
-        // Hooks should be defined as either single files as a function
-        // OR (better yet) a subfolder with an index.js file
-        // (like a standard node module)
-        depth: 2
-      }, cb);
-    },
-
-
-
-    /**
-     * Load app blueprint middleware.
-     *
-     * @param {Object} options
-     * @param {Function} cb
-     */
-    loadBlueprints: function (cb) {
-      buildDictionary.optional({
-        dirname: sails.config.paths.blueprints,
-        filter: /(.+)\.(js|coffee|litcoffee)$/,
-        useGlobalIdForKeyName: true
-      }, cb);
-    },
-
-
-
-    /**
-     * Load custom API responses.
-     *
-     * @param {Object} options
-     * @param {Function} cb
-     */
-    loadResponses: function (cb) {
-      buildDictionary.optional({
-        dirname: sails.config.paths.responses,
-        filter: /(.+)\.(js|coffee|litcoffee)$/,
-        useGlobalIdForKeyName: true
-      }, cb);
-    },
-
    optional: buildDictionary.optional,
    required: buildDictionary.required,
    aggregate: buildDictionary.aggregate,
diff --git a/lib/hooks/orm/index.js b/lib/hooks/orm/index.js
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@

 var _ = require('lodash');
 var async = require('async');
-var prompt = require('prompt');
 var howto_loadAppModelsAndAdapters = require('./load-user-modules');
 var howto_normalizeModelDef = require('./normalize-model');
 var howto_buildORM = require('./build-orm');
@@ -96,8 +95,7 @@ module.exports = function(sails) {

        // Before continuing any further to actually start up the ORM,
        // check the migrate settings for each model to (1) use migrate:safe
-        // in production and (2) prompt the user to make a decision if no migrate
-        // configuration is present.
+        // in production or throw an error.
        _doubleCheckMigration: ['normalizedModelDefs', function (next) {

          // If there are no models, we're good
@@ -110,77 +108,7 @@ module.exports = function(sails) {
            return next();
          }

-          // Otherwise show a prompt
-          console.log('-----------------------------------------------------------------');
-          console.log();
-          prompt.start();
-          console.log('',
-            'Excuse my interruption, but it looks like this app'+'\n',
-            'does not have a project-wide "migrate" setting configured yet.'+'\n',
-            '(perhaps this is the first time you\'re lifting it with models?)'+'\n',
-            '\n',
-            'In short, this setting controls whether/how Sails will attempt to automatically'+'\n',
-            'rebuild the tables/collections/sets/etc. in your database schema.\n',
-            'You can read more about the "migrate" setting here:'+'\n',
-            'http://sailsjs.org/#/documentation/concepts/ORM/model-settings.html?q=migrate\n'
-            // 'command(⌘)+click to open links in the terminal'
-          );
-          console.log('',
-            'In a production environment (NODE_ENV==="production") Sails always uses'+'\n',
-            'migrate:"safe" to protect inadvertent deletion of your data.\n',
-            'However during development, you have a few other options for convenience:'+'\n\n',
-            '1. safe  - never auto-migrate my database(s). I will do it myself (by hand)','\n',
-            '2. alter - auto-migrate, but attempt to keep my existing data (experimental)\n',
-            '3. drop  - wipe/drop ALL my data and rebuild models every time I lift Sails\n'
-          );
-          console.log('What would you like Sails to do?');
-          console.log();
-          sails.log.info('To skip this prompt in the future, set `sails.config.models.migrate`.');
-          sails.log.info('(conventionally, this is done in `config/models.js`)');
-          console.log();
-          sails.log.warn('** DO NOT CHOOSE "2" or "3" IF YOU ARE WORKING WITH PRODUCTION DATA **');
-          console.log();
-          prompt.get(['?'], function(err, result) {
-            if (err) return next(err);
-            result = result['?'];
-
-            switch (result) {
-              case 'alter':
-              case '2':
-                sails.config.models.migrate = 'alter';
-                break;
-              case 'drop':
-              case '3':
-                sails.config.models.migrate = 'drop';
-                break;
-              default:
-                sails.config.models.migrate = 'safe';
-                break;
-            }
-
-            console.log();
-            console.log(' Temporarily using `sails.config.models.migrate="%s"...', sails.config.models.migrate);
-            console.log(' (press CTRL+C to cancel-- continuing lift automatically in 0.5 seconds...)');
-            console.log();
-            setTimeout(function (){
-              return next();
-            },600);
-          });
-
-          // async.eachSeries(_.keys(sails.models), function (identity, nextModel) {
-          //   // If migrate setting is defined, continue without doing anything else.
-          //   if (typeof sails.models[identity].migrate !== 'undefined') {
-          //     return nextModel();
-          //   }
-
-          //   // If migrate setting is not specififed on this model,
-          //   // display a prompt and require the user to make a decision about
-          //   // their migration strategy.
-          //   var thisModel = sails.models[identity];
-
-          // }, next);
-
-
+          throw new Error("No migration strategy defined, please set migrate: safe in your Sails config");
        }],

        // Once all user model and adapter definitions are loaded
@@ -210,7 +138,7 @@ module.exports = function(sails) {
          }
          else {
            // If the re-initialization was a success, trigger an event
-            // in case something needs to respond to the ORM reload (e.g. pubsub hook)
+            // in case something needs to respond to the ORM reload
            sails.emit('hook:orm:reloaded');
          }
        });
diff --git a/lib/hooks/policies/README.md b/lib/hooks/policies/README.md
diff --git a/lib/hooks/policies/index.js b/lib/hooks/policies/index.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/pubsub/README.md b/lib/hooks/pubsub/README.md
diff --git a/lib/hooks/pubsub/drink.js b/lib/hooks/pubsub/drink.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/pubsub/index.js b/lib/hooks/pubsub/index.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/pubsub/spit.js b/lib/hooks/pubsub/spit.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/pubsub/squirt.js b/lib/hooks/pubsub/squirt.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/request/README.md b/lib/hooks/request/README.md
diff --git a/lib/hooks/request/index.js b/lib/hooks/request/index.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/request/locals.js b/lib/hooks/request/locals.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/request/metadata.js b/lib/hooks/request/metadata.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/request/params.all.js b/lib/hooks/request/params.all.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/request/qualifiers.js b/lib/hooks/request/qualifiers.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/request/validate.js b/lib/hooks/request/validate.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/responses/defaults/badRequest.js b/lib/hooks/responses/defaults/badRequest.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/responses/defaults/forbidden.js b/lib/hooks/responses/defaults/forbidden.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/responses/defaults/negotiate.js b/lib/hooks/responses/defaults/negotiate.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/responses/defaults/notFound.js b/lib/hooks/responses/defaults/notFound.js
diff --git a/lib/hooks/responses/defaults/ok.js b/lib/hooks/responses/defaults/ok.js