diff --git a/addon/ng2/blueprints/guard/files/__path__/__name__.service.ts b/addon/ng2/blueprints/guard/files/__path__/__name__.service.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5ee697accf58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addon/ng2/blueprints/guard/files/__path__/__name__.service.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
+import {
+  Can<%= hook %>,
+  ActivatedRouteSnapShot,
+  RouterStateSnapShot,
+  Router
+} from '@angular/router';
+
+@Injectable()
+export class <%= classifiedModuleName %> implements Can<%= hook %> {
+  constructor(private router: Router) {}
+
+  can<%= hook %>(<%= route %>: ActivatedRouteSnapShot, state: RouterStateSnapShot) {
+
+  }
+}
diff --git a/addon/ng2/blueprints/guard/index.js b/addon/ng2/blueprints/guard/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d734b76292ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addon/ng2/blueprints/guard/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+const SilentError = require('silent-error');
+const path = require('path');
+const util = require('../../utilities/route-utils');
+var dynamicPathParser = require('../../utilities/dynamic-path-parser');
+
+module.exports = {
+  description: 'Generate guard',
+
+  availableOptions: [
+    { name: 'can-activate', type: Boolean, default: false, aliases: ['ca'] },
+    { name: 'can-deactivate', type: Boolean, default: false, aliases: ['cd'] },
+    { name: 'can-activate-child', type: Boolean, default: false, aliases: ['cach'] },
+    { name: 'route', type: String },
+    { name: 'name', type: String }
+  ],
+
+  normalizeEntityName: function(entityName) {
+    var parsedPath = dynamicPathParser(this.project, entityName);
+    this.dynamicPath = parsedPath;
+    this.guardPath = entityName;
+    this.entityName = path.parse(entityName).name.split('.')[0];
+    return this.entityName;
+  },
+
+  locals: function(options) {
+    var activate = options.canActivate;
+    var deactivate = options.canDeactivate;
+    var activateChild = options.canActivateChild;
+    // make sure only one option is selected
+    if (activate + deactivate + activateChild !== 1) {
+      throw new SilentError('Please choose only one of the aliases ca, cd, cach');
+    }
+    this.hook = activate ? 'Activate' : ( deactivate ? 'Deactivate' : 'ActivateChild');
+    var customVariables = {
+      hook: this.hook,
+      route: activate || deactivate ? 'route' : 'childRoute'
+    };
+    if (options.name) {
+      customVariables['classifiedModuleName'] = options.name;
+    }
+    return customVariables;
+  },
+
+  fileMapTokens: function() {
+    return {
+      __name__: () => this.entityName,
+      __path__: () => this.dynamicPath.dir
+    }
+  },
+
+  beforeInstall: function() {
+    this.importPath  = this.guardPath[0] === path.sep ?
+      path.resolve(path.join(this.project.root, 'src', 'app', this.guardPath)) : 
+      path.join(process.env.PWD, this.guardPath);
+    if (this.importPath.indexOf('src' + path.sep + 'app') === -1) {
+      throw new SilentError('Guard must be within app');
+    }
+
+  },
+  // TODO: resolve import path and disallow duplicate guards
+  afterInstall: function(options) {
+    return this._locals(options)
+    .then(names => {
+      var mainFile = path.join(this.project.root, 'src', 'main.ts');
+      var routesFile = path.join(this.project.root, 'src', 'routes.ts');
+      var importPath = '.' + this.importPath.replace(path.join(this.project.root, 'src'), '');
+      
+      var imports = {};
+      var toInsert = {};
+      var importedClass = names.classifiedModuleName;
+      imports[importedClass] = [ `${importPath}.service` ];
+      var route = this.guardPath.split('/').filter(n => n !== '').join('/') // strip outer slashes
+      toInsert[route] = [ `can${this.hook}`, `[ ${importedClass} ]` ];
+      var updateRoutesFile = util.addItemsToRouteProperties(routesFile, toInsert);
+      updateRoutesFile.concat(util.insertImport(routesFile, importedClass, importPath));
+
+      return util.applyChanges(updateRoutesFile)
+      .then(() => util.applyChanges(util.bootstrapItem(mainFile, imports, importedClass)));
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+
+// .then(function() {
+//         return ng(['generate', 'guard', '/test-route', '--ca'])
+//       }).then(function() {
+//         var mainFileContent = fs.readFileSync(mainFile, 'utf8');
+//         var routesFileContent = fs.readFileSync(routesFile, 'utf8');
+//         expect(mainFileContent).to.contain('import { TestRoute } from \'./app/test-route/test-route.service.ts\'');
+//         if (!isMobileTest()){
+//           expect(mainFileContent).to.contain('bootstrap(AppComponent, [ provideRouter(routes), TestRoute ])');
+//         } else {
+//           expect(mainFileContent).to.contain('bootstrap(AppComponent, [ APP_SHELL_RUNTIME_PROVIDERS, provideRouter(routes), TestRoute ])');
+//         }
+
+//         expect(routesFileContent).to.contain('import { TestRoute } from \'./app/test-route/test-route.service.ts\'');
+//         expect(routesFileContent).to.contain('[\n  { path: \'test-route\', component: TestRouteComponent: canActivate: [TestRoute] }\n ]')
+//       })
+//     })
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/addon/ng2/blueprints/routes/files/__path__/routes.ts b/addon/ng2/blueprints/routes/files/__path__/routes.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4905173f222f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addon/ng2/blueprints/routes/files/__path__/routes.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+
+export default [];
diff --git a/addon/ng2/blueprints/routes/index.js b/addon/ng2/blueprints/routes/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..96868fb19e03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addon/ng2/blueprints/routes/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+const Blueprint = require('ember-cli/lib/models/blueprint');
+const getFiles = Blueprint.prototype.files;
+const path = require('path');
+const fs = require('fs');
+var chalk = require('chalk');
+const util = require('../../utilities/route-utils');
+const SilentError = require('silent-error');
+
+module.exports = {
+  description: 'Generates a route and template',
+
+  availableOptions: [
+    { name: 'default', type: Boolean, default: false },
+    { name: 'route', type: String },
+    { name: 'parent', type: String, default: '' },
+    { name: 'outlet', type: Boolean, default: false },
+    { name: 'with-component', type: Boolean, default: false, aliases: ['wc'] } // isn't functional yet
+  ],
+
+  beforeInstall: function(options){
+    this._locals(options)
+    .then(names => {
+      var directory = this.newRoutePath[0] === path.sep ? 
+                      path.resolve(path.join(this.project.root, 'src', 'app', this.newRoutePath)):
+                      path.resolve(process.env.PWD, this.newRoutePath);
+      // get route to be used in routes.ts
+      var route = directory.replace(path.join(this.project.root, 'src', 'app'), '');
+      var parsedRoute = path.parse(route);
+      var routeName = parsedRoute.name.split('.')[0];
+      // take care of the cases /**/home/home.component.ts vs /**/home
+      route = routeName === path.parse(parsedRoute.dir).name ?
+              path.parse(route).dir : `${parsedRoute.dir}/${routeName}`;
+      // setup options needed for adding path to routes.ts
+      this.pathOptions = {
+        isDefault: options.default,
+        route: options.route || route,
+        parent: options.parent,
+        outlet: options.outlet,
+        component: `${names.classifiedModuleName}Component`,
+        dasherizedName: names.dasherizedModuleName,
+        mainFile: path.join(this.project.root, 'src/main.ts'),
+        routesFile: path.join(this.project.root, 'src/routes.ts')
+      };
+    });
+  },
+
+  files: function() {
+    var fileList = getFiles.call(this);
+    if (this.project && fs.existsSync(path.join(this.project.root, 'src/routes.ts'))) {
+      return [];
+    }
+    return fileList;
+  },
+
+  fileMapTokens: function() {
+    return { 
+      __path__: () => 'src'
+    };
+  },
+
+  normalizeEntityName: function(entityName) {
+    this.newRoutePath = entityName
+    entityName =  path.parse(entityName).name;
+    if (!entityName) {
+      throw new SilentError('Please provide new route\'s name');
+    }
+    return entityName.split('.')[0];
+  },
+
+  afterInstall: function() {
+    return Promise.resolve().then(() => {
+      // confirm componentFile and presence of export of the component in componentFile
+      var component = this.pathOptions.component;
+      var file = util.resolveComponentPath(this.project.root, process.env.PWD, this.newRoutePath);
+      if (!util.confirmComponentExport(file, component)) {
+        throw new SilentError(`Please add export for '${component}' to '${file}'`);
+      }
+      return Promise.resolve();
+    }).then(() => {
+      // update routes in routes.ts
+      return util.applyChanges(util.addPathToRoutes(this.pathOptions.routesFile, this.pathOptions));
+    }).then(() => {
+      // add import to routes.ts in main.ts
+      return util.applyChanges(
+        [util.insertImport(this.pathOptions.mainFile, 'routes', './routes', true)]);
+    }).then(() => {
+      // bootstrap routes
+      var routes = { 'provideRouter': ['@angular/router'] };
+      var toBootstrap = 'provideRouter(routes)';
+      return util.applyChanges(util.bootstrapItem(this.pathOptions.mainFile, routes, toBootstrap)); 
+    }).catch(e => {
+      if (e.message.indexOf('Did not bootstrap') !== -1) {
+        this._writeStatusToUI(chalk.yellow, e.message, '');
+      } else {
+        throw new SilentError(e.message);
+      }
+    });
+  }
+}
diff --git a/addon/ng2/utilities/route-utils.ts b/addon/ng2/utilities/route-utils.ts
index 34716bfefa97..023e1634061d 100644
--- a/addon/ng2/utilities/route-utils.ts
+++ b/addon/ng2/utilities/route-utils.ts
@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@ export function bootstrapItem(mainFile, imports: {[key: string]: [string, boolea
   // get ExpressionStatements from the top level syntaxList of the sourceFile
   let bootstrapNodes = rootNode.getChildAt(0).getChildren().filter(node => {
     // get bootstrap expressions
-    return node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ExpressionStatement &&
-          node.getChildAt(0).getChildAt(0).text.toLowerCase() === 'bootstrap';
+    return node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ExpressionStatement && node.getChildAt(0) &&
+          node.getChildAt(0).getChildAt(0) && node.getChildAt(0).getChildAt(0).text
+          &&  node.getChildAt(0).getChildAt(0).text.toLowerCase() === 'bootstrap';
   });
   if (bootstrapNodes.length !== 1) {
     throw new Error(`Did not bootstrap provideRouter in ${mainFile}` +
-                                    ' because of multiple or no bootstrap calls');
+                    ' because of multiple or no traditional bootstrap calls');
   }
   let bootstrapNode = bootstrapNodes[0].getChildAt(0);
   let isBootstraped = findNodes(bootstrapNode, ts.SyntaxKind.SyntaxList) // get bootstrapped items
@@ -520,3 +521,10 @@ function getValueForKey(objectLiteralNode: ts.TypeNode.ObjectLiteralExpression,
 function getRootNode(file: string) {
   return ts.createSourceFile(file, fs.readFileSync(file).toString(), ts.ScriptTarget.ES6, true);
 }
+
+function printAll(node, d = 0) {
+  let text = node.text ? `-----> ${node.text}` : '';
+  console.log(new Array(d).join('####'), ts.SyntaxKind[node.kind], text);
+  d++;
+  node.getChildren().forEach(_ => printAll(_, d));
+}
diff --git a/angular-cli-1.0.0-beta.9.tgz b/angular-cli-1.0.0-beta.9.tgz
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4afa91154c5b
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diff --git a/tests/acceptance/route-utils.spec.ts b/tests/acceptance/route-utils.spec.ts
index 6d1a7c48f8dd..49039429d217 100644
--- a/tests/acceptance/route-utils.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/acceptance/route-utils.spec.ts
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ describe('route utils', () => {
       .then(() => nru.bootstrapItem(mainFile, routes, toBootstrap))
       .catch(e =>
         expect(e.message).to.equal('Did not bootstrap provideRouter in' +
-                                  ' tmp/main.ts because of multiple or no bootstrap calls')
+                                  ' tmp/main.ts because of multiple or no traditional bootstrap calls')
       );
     });
     it('configures correctly if bootstrap or provide router is not at top level', () => {
diff --git a/tests/e2e/e2e_workflow.spec.js b/tests/e2e/e2e_workflow.spec.js
index d4522f6e4725..87d779c4e8f7 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/e2e_workflow.spec.js
+++ b/tests/e2e/e2e_workflow.spec.js
@@ -257,6 +257,22 @@ describe('Basic end-to-end Workflow', function () {
     });
   });
 
+  it('creates routes.ts, configures main.ts, and adds routes', function() {
+    return ng(['generate', 'component', 'test-route']).then(function() {
+      return ng(['generate', 'routes', `${path.sep}test-route`]).then(function () {
+        var routesFile = path.join(process.cwd(), 'src', 'routes.ts');
+        var mainFile = path.join(process.cwd(), 'src', 'main.ts');
+        expect(existsSync(routesFile)).to.be.truthy;
+        var mainFileContent = fs.readFileSync(mainFile, 'utf8');
+        var routesFileContent = fs.readFileSync(routesFile, 'utf8');
+
+        expect(mainFileContent).to.contain('import routes from \'./routes\';');
+        expect(routesFileContent).to.contain('import { TestRouteComponent } from \'./app/test-route/test-route.component\';');
+        expect(routesFileContent).to.contain('[\n  { path: \'test-route\', component: TestRouteComponent }\n]');
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
   xit('Perform `ng test` after adding a route', function () {
     this.timeout(420000);