500 when using url_for helper in controllers initialize

rubyonrails-talk
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It seems like you can't use the url_for helper in the initialize method of a controller:

class TestController < ApplicationController   def initialize     @somevar = url_for ( :action => 'index' ) #<=== This errors out for some reason   end

  def some_method     @somevar = url_for ( :action => 'index' ) #<=== but this works   end end

Any idea why this is happening? Is there a known work around?

Thanks

Rafael

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thanks

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If you use/d named routes you can/could just use index_url instead of having to assign a variable.

RSL