Rails - Jul 2006 - Redirect_to from initialize method

Hello, I''m curious as to why this bit of code doesn''t work:

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class SignupController < ApplicationController

  def initialize
    signup.call
  end

  def signup
    redirect_to :action => "signup_form"
  end

end

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You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
The error occured while evaluating nil.rewrite

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Whereas if I comment the signup.call and call the signup method directly 
the redirection works fine.  My apologies if this is utterly trivial, 
thanks.

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I;m new in towm myself, but I think initialize is when the instance 
itself initializes, not when the framework wants it to do something. 
ActionController handles GETs and POSTs from the users, and with no 
actions defined, I think it infers the action (and page) "index".

Therefor:

  def index
    redirect_to :action => "signup_form"
  end

might be more appropriate (assuming you have def signup_form somewhere 
in this controller).

Cheers

Alexandre Hudelot wrote:
> Hello, I''m curious as to why this bit of code doesn''t
work:
> class SignupController < ApplicationController
> 
>   def initialize
>     signup.call
>   end
> 
>   def signup
>     redirect_to :action => "signup_form"
>   end
> 
> end
> 
> --
> 
> You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
> The error occured while evaluating nil.rewrite
> 
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