On 20 Apr 2009, at 17:04, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> > So, given a sessionID, I have need to read and write the session > stored > information 'manually', from _outside_ an actual Rails > request/controller. > > Readers, I know your first response may be to tell me I don't really > want to do that. Trust me though, I really do, it makes sense for me > in > my case. > > I know this wouldn't work if you're using the new cookie session > storage > mechanism. But if you're using a server-side session storage > mechanism, > I'm thinking there must be some reasonable way to do this. But I'm > having trouble figuring it out. > > I've tried looking through the rails source code to see how Rails > reads > and write session, but I'm having trouble finding the relevant code. I > also figured, gee, since Rails allows pluggable session storage > architecture, there must be an abstract description of what a session > store must implement, and how to access it, and that might help me -- > but I couldn't find that either. > How it is stored is almost all up to the session store - they need to be able to fetch the data for a given session id and store some data for a session id. The details have changed between rails 2.2 and 2.3, in 2.2 it was the old cgi interface, in 2.3 it's the new rack interface - you'll need to instantiate the appropriate subclass of ActionController::SessionStore Fred > Anyone have any ideas or tips? I'd like a > session-storage-implementation-agnostic (assuming it's a server-side > method of storage) way to read and write the session hash from > outside a > Rails controller. > > Jonathan > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
