From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-05-05T18:42:37-07:00
Subject: Re: session management with webrick

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gabriele renzi (surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com) wrote:

> Hi gurus and nubys,
>=20
> I'm playing a little with webrick, and I'm having great fun with it.
> I'm writing a little app using some ERB pages and Madeleine as the
> data store, but I'm now wondering how to handle user sessions
> (basically I just need to pass a pair of vars from page to page).=20
>=20
> The only thing I can think of is to use CGI/session and a MemoryStore,
> but I wonder if there is some better method built in webrick.
>=20
> Any hint ?

Install Borges [1] :)

Seriously, you could send back a cookie or hidden form field, and make
an association in your data store between the cookie value and the
session, just like CGI/Session does.

[1] http://borges.rubyforge.org/

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