Redirect_to from initialize method

Rails
1

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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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.

2

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 H. 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