From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-15T06:48:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby CGI questions

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:11:53AM +0900, Kurt M. Dresner wrote:
> I'm trying to make a game (or at least something, so I can learn) with
> Ruby CGI.  I'm having a really hard time with sessions.  I have some
> variables that I want to save, but they are not strings.  They are
> classes that I have defined.  Is there any way to save them with a
> session without them just being converted to strings and then being read
> back in as strings when I load the session up?

I haven't used the CGI::Session module, but you may or may not be aware of
Marshal which can convert (almost) any object into a string representation
and back again. So perhaps all you're looking for is:

sess["deck"] = Marshal.dump(deck)

and

deck = Marshal.load(sess["deck"])

(although it's not clear to me why CGI::Session doesn't do that for you)

Regards,

Brian.