Ruby on Rails

Hi Hassan,

> The "session" concept doesn't imply "authentication" -- it's a Rails
> built-in feature.

I didn't think that one needed an authenticated user in order to have
a session. But I definitely thought one needed to have a User defined
in order to have session defined. So I was surprised that
"session[:symbol] = value" worked fine.

The app I'm working on will be stored on a server to be accessed by
perhaps 25 to 50 users on desktops connected through a LAN. Since
we're on the topic, do I have to do any thing special to ensure that
each user has a distinct session inaccessible to all other users?
(I'll check the Rails' docs later.)

I am going to add Authlogic gem tomorrow, I think, so that the app can
provide secure user-login. I expect Authlogic will hook-up with the
already-working session mechanism.

Thanks for getting me going on the session approach. I've just got to
diagram the flow of control in my app (or maybe jot down a finite
state machine) to figure out where to stick my
session[:show_link]=true/false expressions.

Best wishes,
Richard

On Apr 26, 10:36 am, Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroe...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:05 AM, RichardOnRails
>
> <RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> >> put it in session
> > I'm ready to add some version of an authenticated user,  Authlogic, I
> > think.  That should give me a session as my repository
>
> The "session" concept doesn't imply "authentication" -- it's a Rails
> built-in feature. And again it's just a hash.
>
> Set a value:
>    session["somevar"] = "somevalue"
>
> Read it anywhere:
>
>    session["somevar"]
>
> That's all there is to it. (Yes, there is a 4k limit to data stored in the
> default Session::CookieStore -- shouldn't be a problem for you in
> this example at least. But the API docs are your friend.)
>
> HTH, and good luck,
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