From: dmcnulty@... (Dan McNulty)
Date: 2002-02-19T22:38:33+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI::Session problems

Nice extension, especially being able to set the expiry, which is
something I must do.  Any idea if Matz is going to incorporate this
into the released version?  Seems like a good addition to me.

-- Dan

"Daniel P. Zepeda" <daniel@zepeda-zone.net> wrote in message news:<20020215212758.60a82cac.daniel@zepeda-zone.net>...
> 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