Problem with sessions

Rails
#1

Hi,

Does anyone know is it possible to have more than one sessions in a web
application? If it is possible, can someone please tell me how can I
acheive this?

Thanks
fries 88

#2

Why would you want to do this?

On Jan 14, 2008 1:03 PM, fries 88 [email protected]
wrote:

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#3

Ryan B. wrote:

Why would you want to do this?

On Jan 14, 2008 1:03 PM, fries 88 [email protected]
wrote:

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I kept counters in the session. Then I assigned counters to my page so
that when I first enter the page, I will be able to save and the
subsequent time I enter the same page I will be able to edit the data I
saved previously. I have to do this for many other pages too. So I was
thinking of having one session for a page. But I am not sure if it is
right or possible.

controller:

def find_count
session[:count] ||= 0
session[:count] += 1

if session[:count] == 1
  redirect_to :action => 'prod_desc'
else
  redirect_to :action => 'update_prod_desc'

  end
end
#4

I’m not sure what you’re trying to do but can’t you do:

session[:count]
and then
session[:othercount]

#5

I dont think this is the right way to go about it.

You should have a link to create the data, and then another link to
edit.
You can decide which one shows by checking to see if the data exists
before
doing it.

It sounds like you’re over-complicating something.

Ryan B.
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#6

On Jan 13, 2008, at 9:18 PM, fries 88 wrote:

end

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One thing you can do is reference each page in the session.
Something like

session[:page_name][:counter]

If you want to automate it completely, you can even do

session[controller_name][action_name][:counter]

though I would probably convert controller_name and action_name to
symbols with

session[controller_name.to_sym][action_name.to_sym][:counter]

On the other hand, if you only want to do manually, you can use a
before filter to set a variable that you then use as the key into the
session hash.

Having said that, Ryan might be onto something. You might want to
step back and re-evaluate your requirements to see if you are
overcomplicating some process.

Peace,
Phillip