# Sessions do not update created\_at column? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 11, 2009, 10:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-do-not-update-created-at-column/160048 "2009-02-11T10:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/artchrst)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 10:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-do-not-update-created-at-column/160048/1 "2009-02-11T10:31:49Z")
Hi All, I added a column to the sessions table called “created\_at” in order to allow the created time to be recorded. However, different from other Models, the column does not update automatically. Therefore, what codes should I add to update the sessions.“created\_at” value? It is important for avoiding hacker keeping the sessions alive. Thanks much! Arthur ---
**Author:** ![artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/artchrst)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 10:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-do-not-update-created-at-column/160048/2 "2009-02-11T10:36:04Z")
On Feb 11, 9:31 am, Arthur C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi All, > > I added a column to the sessions table called “created\_at” in order to > allow the created time to be recorded. > > However, different from other Models, the column does not update > automatically. What flavour of active record store do you use ? Some people use ones which mostly bypass activerecord (and as a result you don’t get some of the stuff AR gives you for free), Fred ---
**Author:** ![artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/artchrst)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-do-not-update-created-at-column/160048/3 "2009-02-11T10:46:32Z")
Hi Fred, Do you mean? config.action\_controller.session\_store = :active\_record\_store I am setting up as the above. Does it mean that I should have the function? Thanks Arthur Frederick C. wrote: > On Feb 11, 9:31�am, Arthur C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I added a column to the sessions table called “created\_at” in order to > > allow the created time to be recorded. > > > > However, different from other Models, the column does not update > > automatically. > > What flavour of active record store do you use ? Some people use ones > which mostly bypass activerecord (and as a result you don’t get some > of the stuff AR gives you for free), > > Fred ---
**Author:** ![artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/artchrst)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-do-not-update-created-at-column/160048/4 "2009-02-11T11:11:55Z")
Created\_at is supposed to be filled only at creation time, right? Shouldn’t you use updated\_at instead? On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Arthur C. \< ---
**Author:** ![artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/artchrst)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 11:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-do-not-update-created-at-column/160048/5 "2009-02-11T11:17:37Z")
Yes. The problem is that the field has not been filled at any time… I just want both “created\_at” and “updated\_at” be filled in automatically. Mathieu R. wrote: > Created\_at is supposed to be filled only at creation time, right? > Shouldn’t > you use updated\_at instead? > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Arthur C. \< ---
**Author:** ![artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/artchrst)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 11:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-do-not-update-created-at-column/160048/6 "2009-02-11T11:22:28Z")
With default AR it always did this for me automatically… Frederick said something about using a different flavour of AR, but that’s beyond my knowledge… On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Arthur C. \< ---
**Author:** ![artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@artchrst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/artchrst)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-do-not-update-created-at-column/160048/7 "2009-02-11T12:58:22Z")
On 11 Feb 2009, at 10:21, Mathieu R. wrote: > With default AR it always did this for me automatically… Frederick > said something about using a different flavour of AR, but that’s > beyond my knowledge… To expand on what I said, when you use active\_record\_store you provide a session class that handles the loading and saving of the data (as opposed to the other bits of a session store). Rails provides an implementation which is just a plain old model class but you can replace that with one that just issues raw sql statements (mostly in the interest of speed). An example one is included with rails. Obviously if you didn’t know any of that you probably haven;'t done that 🙂 In the absence of all that created\_at and updated\_at should update automatically as it is just a regular ActiveRecord class. Dumb question: did you restart your mongrel or whatever is handling your requests after you added that column ? Fred