# Session data in observer **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 1, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/session-data-in-observer/118890 "2007-11-01T01:51:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![da991319](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@da991319](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/da991319)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/session-data-in-observer/118890/1 "2007-11-01T01:51:14Z")
Hello, In my app, there is an observer that gets fired when an change is done on one table. what i want it to do is to write into an other table the action done and the user which made the action. But until now i didn’t manage to get the session data into the observer. I always get “session, undefined methode for observer” Any ideas how i can handle this? thank you ---
**Author:** ![da991319](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@da991319](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/da991319)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/session-data-in-observer/118890/2 "2007-11-01T02:39:08Z")
Observers, like models, are not meant to have access to the session. It’s a violation of the MVC pattern. You’re not really supposed to be doing what you’re doing. It does make doing auditing a bit harder. However, the Rails Recipes book shows how you can hack cache\_sweepers to do what you’re trying to do. ---
**Author:** ![da991319](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@da991319](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/da991319)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/session-data-in-observer/118890/3 "2007-11-02T02:30:40Z")
Hello thank you i will try to have a look to the receipe book. but i also think about using a filter before just to respect the MVC pattern. Thank you