From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2003-07-20T05:10:34+09:00
Subject: BUG: CGI.Session on Windows

If a newbie tries to get CGI Sessions working, he will run in the
following bug. No code example that i have seen so far starts with supplying
the temporary diectory as an option.

s = CGI::Session.new(cgi,{"tmpdir" => "z:/temp/", "session_path" => "/"})

And if a user does not do this it will result in an error because the
default in "session.rb:105" is

"dir = option['tmpdir'] || ENV['TMP'] || '/tmp'"

'/tmp' is not valid under windows and normally (standart
configuration) CGI's don't get the environment variables from the
system. So could we change this into
 
"dir = option['tmpdir'] || ENV['TMP'] || Dir::temp_directory

and add a "temp_directory" method to the Dir class that returns '/tmp'
or on windows the value of the "GetTempPath" function.

I would highly recommand this change. It makes the newbies life much
easier.

BTW is there any public bug tracking system where i can add such
requests.