# Rails 1.2.2 cookies big headache!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-2-2-cookies-big-headache/112321>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 17, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-2-2-cookies-big-headache/112321 "2007-08-17T14:27:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-2-2-cookies-big-headache/112321/1 "2007-08-17T14:27:07Z")

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I am trying to write a cookie :

request.cookies[‘ad\_w1’] = {:value =\> “#{advertising.id}”, :expires =\>  
Time.now.utc+1.year}  
or

any other test

cookies[:user\_id] = { :value =\> ‘123’, :expires =\> Time.now + 1.hour}

but I continously get an error : TypeError: can’t modify frozen hash

something gets wrong but where ?

thanks for your lights …

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note : discovered that …

Rails breaks the hash implementation that cookies appear, on the  
surface, to support.  
For whatever reason, symbol access of values doesn’t work but string  
access does. Also, for whatever reason, the nil? method will not work  
but the empty? method does. Hopefully this saves somebody some  
frustration!

request.cookies[‘note’].value unless request.cookies[‘note’].empty?