# How can I create a 2nd/separate cookie for my app? (i.e. an **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 3, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-create-a-2nd-separate-cookie-for-my-app-i-e-an/108484 "2007-07-03T23:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-create-a-2nd-separate-cookie-for-my-app-i-e-an/108484/1 "2007-07-03T23:49:45Z")
Hi, How can I create a 2nd/separate cookie for my app (i.e. and not use the session tracking cookie). Is this possible? Currently the timezone id I’m saving via “cookies[:tz]” gets stored ok in the application cookie (along with session\_id etc), however the session cookie disappears after the browser is closed - and I don’t want to keep this session cookie “alive” longer than this. Tks ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-create-a-2nd-separate-cookie-for-my-app-i-e-an/108484/2 "2007-07-04T00:07:46Z")
Greg H. wrote: > Tks That sound to me like the kind of thing you might want to be storing in the users table. – [http://www.5valleys.com/](http://www.5valleys.com/) ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-create-a-2nd-separate-cookie-for-my-app-i-e-an/108484/3 "2007-07-04T00:09:47Z")
I use this in my controller… cookies[:\_my\_host\_tz]= { :value =\> “PST”, :expires =\> 30.days.from\_now, :path =\> “/” } and checking in Firefox, it does create a separate cookie from the sessions cookie. there is a \_my\_host\_session\_id and a \_my\_host\_tz cookie. On Jul 3, 2:48 pm, “Greg H.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-create-a-2nd-separate-cookie-for-my-app-i-e-an/108484/4 "2007-07-04T01:15:51Z")
PS. How are you accessing the timezone info in your app out of curiosity? I’ve doing the following. Any comments welcomed? - I’m not accessing via the cookie as if it’s not set and I set it in a before filter it remains unset until the next browser request, so what I’m doing is: - Application code accesses value from session, with cookie value being used when browser closed/opened. - When even setting timezone in app set both cookie & session. - BeforeFilter = Ensure that both session and cookie contains value. If cookie is nil then set it with with session value and vica versa. If both are nil then set a default in both cookie and session ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-create-a-2nd-separate-cookie-for-my-app-i-e-an/108484/5 "2007-07-04T00:13:48Z")
oh, perhaps I was misinterpreting the “see cookie info” from the web developer firefox plugin (i.e. thought it was the same cookie) - let me try this wolfmanjm - tks` ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-create-a-2nd-separate-cookie-for-my-app-i-e-an/108484/6 "2007-07-04T02:40:55Z")
Sorry I’m not actually using the cookie to store TZ info, I’m actually using it to store last view time, but the technique for cookie storing should be the same 🙂 On Jul 3, 4:14 pm, “Greg H.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)