You just imported the SBT project of Activator or Play framework app in IntelliJ IDEA (14), and you found that you "routes" among other symbols do not resolve.
Root Cause:
You are lacking the dependency for the auto-generated routing class.
Solution:
You can add Module Dependency to classes_managed. This is located in the target/scala_2
I originally posted a similar solution, but this one is much better and works with Play 2.3 or later. This video shows you exactly what you will need to do.