[Rails] Re: Can I update session variable in a new thread?

2009-05-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
>> But it is do-able, although not easy, I don't think you can get away >> with just trying to access the session array itself in a thread that's >> out of the request loop. Sorry, this is a topic of interest to me that noone else is ever interested in talking about. PPS: REALLY, if you de

[Rails] Re: Can I update session variable in a new thread?

2009-05-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > > But it is do-able, although not easy, I don't think you can get away > with just trying to access the session array itself in a thread that's > out of the request loop. I'd add it's do-able ONLY if you are using a server-side session store. NOT if you are using th

[Rails] Re: Can I update session variable in a new thread?

2009-05-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Sudhi Kulkarni wrote: > Then in one of the periodic update methods if I access the > session[:executing] it is not updated to "done". Is there a problem if I > try to update session variable in a different thread? Actually, this is precisely what I was trying to do in another thread here where

[Rails] Re: Can I update session variable in a new thread?

2009-05-27 Thread Frederick Cheung
On May 27, 4:36 am, Sudhi Kulkarni wrote: > Frederick Cheung wrote: > How do I know whether rails has closed out and pushed the cookie back to > client? There's going to be a pretty narrow window after your action method returns and before rails has got as far as session cleanup. I can't thin

[Rails] Re: Can I update session variable in a new thread?

2009-05-26 Thread Sudhi Kulkarni
Frederick Cheung wrote: > On May 26, 10:20�am, Sudhi Kulkarni > wrote: >> session[:executing] it is not updated to "done". Is there a problem if I >> try to update session variable in a different thread? >> > > If this ends up setting the session after rails has closed out the > session (ie push

[Rails] Re: Can I update session variable in a new thread?

2009-05-26 Thread Frederick Cheung
On May 26, 10:20 am, Sudhi Kulkarni wrote: > Hi, > > I have a controller code which does the following > > t1= Thread.new { >        #some code >        session[:executing] = "done" >     } > > Then in one of the periodic update methods if I access the > session[:executing] it is not updated to