From: Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli@...>
Date: 2008-07-10T04:51:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to find good examples of Ruby Sessions.

Xeno Campanoli wrote:

The way I'm trying to use this now is to initialize the session in a 
class method in my user object, and then always retrieve a class 
variable version of the session in the instantiator of the object.  I am 
using all defaults, and I don't close the session in the class object, 
but merely execute update before letting go of the local scope.  Then 
when I try to retrieve the session it just isn't there.  Perhaps because 
  it doesn't see the session cookie yet or something.

Perhaps I need to just hold onto my created @Session value until 
following sessions...

> Pickaxe 246 is not only weak, but appears to be just wrong by saying:
> 
> if session['lastaccess']
> 
> which doesn't check that lastaccess is infact a hash key to begin with. 
>  However, when I try a .has_key?, I get a failure with that (the above 
> fails as I expect also).  So what gives?  Is this just broken, or am I 
> not seeing an undocumented step that should be obvious to any 
> clairvoyent that dares use this?
> 
> I also don't get enough from the core/classes/CGI/Session.html, which 
> does't give good example of use of session, but rather only of starting 
> a session...all evidence that perhaps this tool never actually ever got 
> used...???
> 
> xc
> 
>