On Jan 3, 4:46 am, Ralph Shnelvar <[email protected]> wrote: > The *Agile Web Development with Rails* book has an explanation of > sessions that I am having trouble following. > > Does anyone know of another good discussion of how Rails manages > sessions. > > Specifically, in Firefox and and Internet Explorer ... is each browser > window a session? Is each invocation of the browser a session? > > If I close a browser window ... can I restart the session? > > Exactly what is a session and how is state information maintained across > browser requests?
A session is tied to a cookie (depending on your session store that cookie either contains the session data or an identifier that allows rails to retrieve the session from memcache/database/disk etc.) Your questions above all boil down to what is the scope of a cookie and how long does it last. Cookies can have expiry dates set long in the future, but sessions are handled with cookies that are set to only last until the browser quits (not the same as just closing a window). Fred Fred > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
