Storing information in session in rails - How to?

Rails
1

Hi,

I am a rails newbie and i need to store some info. in the session, so
that i can use it in any controllers when needed.

in config/enviroment.rb, i have,

config.action_controller.session = {
:session_key => ‘_xxx_ui_session’,
:secret =>
‘70ec05c894289359662252cdfd64e359822861bfd85626d0cc0699b4cef6ab409861e5dce5c9359918cedf4f58fa6fb73e2697ddb32d5ef4bd
4076cf31c1af8d’
}

In application.rb, i have,

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
require ‘xmlrpc_server’

@hostname = “127.0.0.1”
@port = 8080
@server = ServerProxy.new(@hostname, @port)

session[:server] = @server ===> i get the error for this line

end

But i keep on getting the error
Symbol as array index

Am i going wrong anywhere, please suggest

Thanks and Regards,
Vimal Das

2

On Apr 1, 7:39 am, vimal [email protected] wrote:

end

But i keep on getting the error
Symbol as array index

Am i going wrong anywhere, please suggest

Yes - the session doesn’t exist at that point (this code is run when
the application is started, not when a request is being processed
(which is the only time a session is available).

Fred

3

config.action_controller.session = {
:session_key => ‘_xxx_ui_session’,
:secret =>
‘70ec05c894289359662252cdfd64e359822861bfd85626d0cc0699b4cef6ab409861e5dce5c9359918cedf4f58fa6fb73e2697ddb32d5ef4bd
4076cf31c1af8d’
}
this code will work before version 2.3.2 but in rails 2.3.3 it is
changed to
config.action_controller.session = {
:key => ‘_xxx_ui_session’,
:secret =>
‘70ec05c894289359662252cdfd64e359822861bfd85626d0cc0699b4cef6ab409861e5dce5c9359918cedf4f58fa6fb73e2697ddb32d5ef4bd
4076cf31c1af8d’
}

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Frederick C.
<[email protected]

4

Thanks for your suggestions.

But i need some additional suggestions, as i am a newbie in both rails
and xmlrpc
I have an xmlrpc client in ruby stored inside the controllers
directory
and guessing how to get the connection and store it in a session.

All i want to do is,

  1. Establish a connection only once and store the connection variable
    in session like --> session[:server_conn] = @server_conn
  2. Request a cookie after authentication ad store that in session like
    –> session[:cookie] = @cookie

So that i can access the session variables in other controllers
too…

Regards,
Vimal Das