Hey all,
I am looking through this example Rails app where a user session is
stored in cookie so user signs up in one rails app and navigates to
another while still being signed in as unique user. I come across this
line of code where I don’t understand where some of these methods are
coming from:
@session = Session.create!(:user => @user)
cookies[:session_token] = {:value => @session.token, :domain =>
Settings.session_token_domain}
- I look in Session class and there is no create! class method. Yet it
works and doesn’t throw an exception.
I do understand when that create! method is called, the constructor is
initialized first and generates a random number and assigns it to the
token property (self.token) of the specific instance. And then stores
the instance to the @session instance variable.
- I did a global search of app and found no property or method called
“session_token_domain”, although there is a Session class but
session_token_domain is not declared anywhere in it. The only other
location is in settings.yml, which has something like this:
production:
<<: *default_settings
session_token_domain: xxxxx
So I’m not sure why this doesn’t throw an exception either.
- Finally I see that Rails supports a hash called cookies that can pass
strings or symbols. Here a key is created and a value which contains
subhashes is passed into it. So we store a unique session token for
user. What value does this add rather than just assigning the user id in
the sessions hash which is actually done in the same method:
session[:user_id] = @user.id
Why store them both?
Thanks for response
On Apr 29, 3:04am, John M. [email protected] wrote:
Settings.session_token_domain}
- I look in Session class and there is no create! class method. Yet it
works and doesn’t throw an exception.
With so little context it is hard to say.
I do understand when that create! method is called, the constructor is
initialized first and generates a random number and assigns it to the
token property (self.token) of the specific instance. And then stores
the instance to the @session instance variable.
- I did a global search of app and found no property or method called
“session_token_domain”, although there is a Session class but
session_token_domain is not declared anywhere in it. The only other
location is in settings.yml, which has something like this:
Again, we know nothing about your app. At a wild guess, maybe the
settings class reads settings.yml and created methods for all the
attributes defined in there.
Fred
Frederick C. wrote in post #995797:
On Apr 29, 3:04am, John M. [email protected] wrote:
Settings.session_token_domain}
- I look in Session class and there is no create! class method. Yet it
works and doesn’t throw an exception.
With so little context it is hard to say.
It inherits from ActiveRecord and I know ActiveRecord doesn’t contain a
create! method. The only possibility could be then a gem that works as a
singleton. But what I would love to do is something like: logger.info
Session.create! and then get output that says that this method is
defined in such and such class, kind of like a callstack. But of course
logger.info or logger.error just tells you what the value holds, not
where it was declared and initialized.
On Apr 29, 10:17pm, John M. [email protected] wrote:
It inherits from ActiveRecord and I know ActiveRecord doesn’t contain a
create! method.
Wrongo.
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Validations/ClassMethods.html#method-i-create-21
The only possibility could be then a gem that works as a
singleton. But what I would love to do is something like: logger.info
Session.create! and then get output that says that this method is
defined in such and such class, kind of like a callstack. But of course
logger.info or logger.error just tells you what the value holds, not
where it was declared and initialized.
You could step into it with the debugger.
Fred