Can you post your code Ylan ? Also, can you include and session store config files as well ?
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Ylan Segal <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow Rubyists, > > I have been scratching my head on this one for a while: I have an > e-commerce app in production with pretty standard add-to-cart > functionality. Whenever a user starts an order, I add the order id to the > session and read it back on subsequent requests (like showing the cart, > checkout form, etc). By and large, this works as expected in my tests and > testing with local browsers. > > However, for a small number of my users, the session doesn't seems to keep > the order id. In actions where I would expect the order id to be there, it > is not. For example, I have a OrdersController#update action that, well, > updates the order. Following convention, that actions forwards to > OrdersController#show. Since the session[:order_id] was present in #update, > I would obviously expect it to be set in #show, and for most users it is, > but for some it is not. I am obviously, checking that the user is not > visiting #show before #update or #create has been called. > > Random stuff that I think might make a difference > > * It is not restricted to any one browser/version. It happens with IE, > Firefox, etc. > * It happens with browsers that have cookies (I can see when analyzing > requests, that the cookies headers are being sent, it just that the session > doesn't contain the expected variable/value). > * Running Rails 3.1 on heroku with default session store. > > Currently, my only hunch is that the users browser is not sending the > latest version of a cookie (with the order_id set in the session) but the > original one generated when the first visited the site (where the > session[:order_id] has not been set). > > Has anyone experiences something like this? Would using another kind of > cookie store solve this? > > Thanks for the help, > > -- > Ylan Segal > [email protected] > Tel: +1-858-224-7421 > Fax: +1-858-876-1799 > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
