James B. wrote in post #975693:
I have asked about this problem elsewhere and have as yet not had any
answer.
I cannot determine what is wrong with our Session store
configuration. In Rails2 we used AR store with AuthLogic without
problem. When we switched to Rails3 we ended up using cookie store
because we could not get AR store to work. Now I would like to
discover why we are having this problem and fix it.
What is NOT happening is that the session_id in the sessions model
is not being initialized. Therefore we see this DBMS error:
PGError: ERROR: null value in column "session_id" violates
not-null constraint
: INSERT INTO “sessions” (“session_id”, “updated_at”,
“created_at”, “lock_version”, “data”) VALUES (NULL, . . .
We never explicitly set session_id in Rails2 and I cannot figure out
how to do so so now. Does anyone know hat one must do to initialize
session_id from inside AuthLogic?
AFAIK the choice of session store should be independent of any
authentication framework. Have you tried creating new blank Rails 3.0
application and checking the session store configuration?
Here is what I see from doing so:
./initializers/session_store.rb
Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
Demo::Application.config.session_store :cookie_store, :key =>
‘_demo_session’
Use the database for sessions instead of the cookie-based default,
which shouldn’t be used to store highly confidential information
(create the session table with “rails generate session_migration”)
Demo::Application.config.session_store :active_record_store
I simple commented out the cookie store config and replaced it with the
AR session store config. then ran the generator as shown above.
./db/schema.rb
create_table “sessions”, :force => true do |t|
t.string “session_id”, :null => false
t.text “data”
t.datetime “created_at”
t.datetime “updated_at”
end
add_index “sessions”, [“session_id”], :name =>
“index_sessions_on_session_id”
add_index “sessions”, [“updated_at”], :name =>
“index_sessions_on_updated_at”
./app/controllers/welome_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
protect_from_forgery
before_filter :force_session_use
private
def force_session_use
session[:user_id] = 1
end
end
A little code to force a value into the session.
./app/views/welcome/index.html.erb
Welcome#index
Session contains user_id: <%= session[:user_id] %>
-----------------------------
Read the value back from the session.
sessions table in database
sqlite> select * from sessions;
id|session_id|data|created_at|updated_at
1|4e3b2648c9a9fb292fc45b756f7e8908|BAh7B0kiDHVzZXJfaWQGOgZFRmkGSSIQX2NzcmZfdG9rZW4GOwBGSSIxeTdI
VEdlRDJ1ZURQa0kwdEZOcjNaSi9wVE1NUVg5Y2ZyMDdQSTJXMWdWdz0GOwBG
|2011-01-18 20:07:12.597419|2011-01-18 20:07:12.597419
And finally we get the session data stored in the database.
No AuthLogic or anything else involved. I’d check your session store
configuration against what I showed here. Good luck.