On 3 Feb 2009, at 18:47, tatyree wrote:

>
> Is it ever sensible to attempt to persist data across a session using
> request.env?  Say something like:
>
> request.env['user_name'] = 'bob'
>
> I'm discussing this with the maintainer of a commercial gem (where it
> doesn't seem to work).
>

Nope not a chance in hell. The request environment last for the  
duration of the request.

> My natural instinct would be to do this instead (indeed, I patched the
> gem):
>
> session[:user_name] = 'bob'
>
That's what I would

> I'm guessing that his use of request.env is derived from experience in
> another language (PHP?) and I just wanted to check that it wasn't some
> obscure, but reasonable, railsian way of doing things (that wasn't
> working on any of my three environments) before I went back to him.
>
> Cheers,
> Todd
>
> >


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