From: "Daniel P. Zepeda" <daniel@...>
Date: 2002-02-16T12:27:58+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI::Session problems

I wrote some minor enhancements and fixes for the CGI::Session. You can find it and a demonstration program at rubycookbook.org:

http://www.rubycookbook.org/showrecipe.rb?sessionID=jIYy8Oar1QLGIAtI&recipeID=135

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 01:00:23 +0900
dmcnulty@mindspring.com (Dan McNulty) wrote:

> 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


-- 
Daniel P. Zepeda
daniel@zepeda-zone.net