From: dmcnulty@... (Dan McNulty)
Date: 2002-02-16T01:00:23+09:00
Subject: CGI::Session problems

Argh!

I am trying to using CGI:Session (with Apache & mod_ruby) and meeting
no success.  I have read what little there is about sessions in the
two books I have, and scoured the 'net for examples (and found a few).

The code I am using is like this:

def getsession(cgi)
    if $sess == nil then
        $sess = CGI::Session.new(cgi, 
                                "session_key" => "a_test",
                                "prefix" => "rubysess.")    
    end
    return $sess
end

cgi = CGI.new
sess = getsession(cgi)
if sess["junk"] != nil
    puts "An existing session"
    puts Marshal.load(sess["junk"])
    sess.update
else
    puts "A new session"
    sess["junk"]=123
end

The function getsession() is defined in a loaded file.

The problem is that sess["junk"] is always nil, like session isn't
being stored or restored.

I would really love a simple example of this working under mod_ruby. 
I think perhaps mod_ruby is whacking my "cgi" object after every run. 
Since I need the session for variable persistance, this is not a good
thing.

Thanks for any help!

-- Dan