[Rails] initialize called more than once?

[Abdur-Rahman Advany]

Well the controler gets created every time a action is called, HTTP is a 
stateless protocol : )

Danny Hendargo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In my test case below, it seems that 'initialize' is called everytime 
> 'hello' is called. Is this by design, a bug, or my pilot error?
>
>    class FooController < ApplicationController
>
>        def initialize
>            print "\n initialize \n"
>        end
>
>        def hello
>            print "\n hello \n"
>        end
>    end
>
> I thought initialize will be called exactly once when the controller 
> is constructed and not when an action is executed.
>
> Thanks for your help and sorry if duplicate,
>
> -Danny
>
>
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