hey, unless yr storing the session in the db for some business requirement
you might want to try out using the cookie session store that rails uses by
default. it's a definite improvement over maintaining it yourself and having
to sweep out behind old expired sessions.
RSL
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Joshua Partogi <joshua.j...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Yeah I got that problem too and I just alter the column to be varchar
> (500) :-(
>
> On May 5, 9:55 pm, César Díaz <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem with the Session ID in my Rails application. I need to
> > store some data of anonymous users and then, when the session expires,
> > delete that information from de database.
> >
> > I have a filter in some point of my application when I try to create an
> > anonymous user which I want to identify by its session_id. I read that
> > this session_id must be a 32 char length value, but, when I run the
> > application my session_id value is:
> >
> >
> BAh7CToMY3NyZl9pZCIlYmE1ZWYxNzY3MzUwMjI2MzU0NWFhMWUxODZkZDY4M2U6EXNlYXJjaFN0cmluZyIJbmFkYToPdXBkYXRlZF9hdEl1OglUaW1lDatQG4BQk5jZBjofQG1hcnNoYWxfd2l0aF91dGNfY29lcmNpb25GIgpmbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVyOjpGbGFzaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAGOgpAdXNlZHsA--206695460a9e840bd0393690e0d8813ee46ce434
> >
> > The code is:
> >
> > def save_anonymus_user
> > self.current_user = User.new(:login => "guest" +
> > session.session_id,
> > :password => "guest", :confirm_password => "guest", :session_id
> > => session.session_id)
> > end
> >
> > And when the session expires, I am using the session_lifetime plugin to
> > make some stuff like deleting the user from the database.
> >
> > expires_session :time => 5.minutes, :redirect_to => '/', :on_expiry =>
> > lambda {
> > user = User.find_by_session_id(session.session_id)
> > User.delete(user.id) unless user.nil?
> > }
> >
> > At this point, the session_id is a 32 char length value, as expected.
> >
> > What is wrong with the session at the first point? I am lost.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> >
>
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