Sessions in Rails 2.3?

Rails
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Hi guys, new here so bonjour…

Sorry if this question has been asked, but i had a good look and i’m
just generally confused about this at the moment!

ive been learning rails for about 4 months now and im on to sessions
and more importantly where there stored, i have “Agile web
development” and the lydna screencasts which both talk about sessions.

However the agile web development book describes these as
ActiveRecordStore, which no longer exists?

and Lynda.com is using an old unscalable file system method?

Is there a nice guide, long or short someone on the web that shows how
to do sessions currently and preferably storing them in a database
(mysql)?

Cheers, Alex

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Currently Rails stores sessions in the browser and this is the most
scalable solution found until now.

Unless you have a really great idea to build a better session store,
just use the cookie based one and you’re done.

Maurício Linhares
http://codeshooter.wordpress.com/ | http://twitter.com/mauriciojr

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Alex

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Yes, you can’t have a lot of objects in the session using the cookie
based session store, but this shouldn’t be a problem if you’re just
storing things like the flash or user ids on it.

Maurício Linhares
http://codeshooter.wordpress.com/ | http://twitter.com/mauriciojr

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Walter

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Hi Alex,

If you’re using rails 2.3.2, take a look at ./config/initializers/
session_store.rb. There you’ll see what you’re looking for:

…
#ActionController::Base.session_store = :active_record_store
…

Jeff

5

I have memcached based sessions (i.e. config/environment.rb
“config.action_controller.session_store = :mem_cache_store”) from before
2.3. Are their any issues I should I keep in mind if I switch to the
new
hotness?
Man, that phrase sounds dated!

Cheers,
Walter

2009/6/12 Maurício Linhares [email protected]