# Accessing session data in plugin controller

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-session-data-in-plugin-controller/147502>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 2, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-session-data-in-plugin-controller/147502 "2008-09-02T15:49:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-session-data-in-plugin-controller/147502/1 "2008-09-02T15:49:02Z")

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I have the following problem.

My application uses sessions to reference the current user with  
user\_id. It is implemented in rails 1.2.5.

Now I created a plugin which needs to access session[:user\_id]. Due to  
security reasons I do not want to youse params. But when I access  
session[:user\_id] in the plugin the value is not set.

Actually a totally new session is created just for the plugin. Thus  
neither my session variable nor flash messages work.

Is there some trick to use sessions in plugins?