On Jul 9, 10:44 am, Pål Bergström <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Why doesn't this work in a controller, or in a file in a module in /lib:
>
> require 'cgi'
> cgi = CGI.new
> test = cgi.cookies["mycookie"][0]
>
Rails doesn't use CGI anymore as the interface between it and the
outside world (it uses rack instead) which probably broke that.
Controllers have an instance method called cookies which returns a
hash like object containing your cookies.
Fred
> cgi.cookies doesn't get the cookie.
>
> But this cgi script does:
>
> require 'cgi'
> cgi = CGI.new('html4')
> cookie_name = 'mycookie'
> val_string = cgi.cookies[cookie_name][0]
> cgi.out {
> cgi.html {
> cgi.head { cgi.title {"Cookies"} } +
> cgi.body {
> cgi.p {"name: #{cookie_name}" } +
> cgi.p {"value: #{val_string}"}
> }
> }}
>
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