route not initializing to 'hello'

[Jeff17Robbins]

demo.html does this:

    Polymer('x-test', {
      route: 'hello'
    });

but the input box doesn't initialize to 'hello'.

If I change x-test to this:

    Polymer('x-test', {
      ready: function () {
          this.route = 'hello';
      }
    });

then the input box does initialize to 'hello'.

Assuming that route: 'hello' was meant to initialize, why doesn't it?

[1001binary]

I think that the route will begin when the polymer/flatiron-director element is ready.