Hi Dude and Chris Chris, it’s worth noting that he is exceed his 4k cookie storage limit, not session limit. I second Chris’ question about "what are you storing in the cookie ?” . Without seeing any code, I’m just guessing, but typically you should only store light weight stuff in the cookie. It’s been awhile since I’ve set up Devise, but in general, you should usually just store unique keys that point to values in the session (or other data store) in your cookie. You should also not store anything sensitive in the cookie. I’ve used Devise with multiple users logged in at the same time (admin and reg user) without problems. Maybe you can show us some code ? Apologies in advance if I am misinterpreting your problem.
Cheers Ben W On April 6, 2014 at 11:53:41 AM, Abiding Dude ([email protected]) wrote: Hi Chris, a number of Stack Overflow answers to Devise ActionDispatch::Cookies::CookieOverflow mentioned the 4k cookie limit problem with the recommended solution being to use a different store. https://coderwall.com/p/dqdyig At this point in testing I'm not storing anything else in session, the 4k limit seems to be exceeded when I login as a customer AND as admin using Devise. Logging into just 1 works perfectly fine, its the second login adding to the cookie that appears to cause the overflow. I'm not using memcache at the moment and felt hitting the db may not be ideal for performance. Once you login with Devise with session stored in db, will it hit the db every time to verify access to a page or could that be handled by having just the user_id in a cookie session. So on login store session info in db, set only the user_id in cookie session and use only that value to enable access to various pages or sections. I wired up auth from one of the wire it yourself railscasts, it works fine but not ideal for forgot password. Devise is powerful and pretty user friendly cept for this cookie overflow issue. I checked Sorcery v briefly yesterday but per your suggestion will revisit in more detail this afternoon. Thanks for the tip not to wire it myself. On Sunday, April 6, 2014 9:10:25 AM UTC-7, Chris McCann wrote: There are other options for authentication in Rails. Depending on your needs, Sorcery is a fairly well-written, lighter weight alternative to Devise: https://github.com/NoamB/sorcery I, along with most other experienced Rails developers here, would strongly discourage writing your own authentication solution. There's no need to reinvent something so critical to an app as authentication when there is battle-tested, community-vetted code already available. The bigger question here, though, is why you're getting the cookie overflow error. Does this Stack Overflow post describe your situation? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7117200/devise-for-twitter-cookie-overflow-error You should take a close look at what you're storing in the cookie-based session, in addition to what Devise is stashing there. If you find for some reason that you have to put more than 4k of data in the session then a database or memcached session store would certainly allow that. Is there a particular reason why neither of these session stores is an option? Cheers, Chris On Sunday, April 6, 2014 1:25:49 AM UTC-7, Abiding Dude wrote: Am building an ecommerce app and finding a problem with overflow on cookies if I have 2 models with Devise. The suggested solution via stack overflow is to use the db to get around this issue which I'd rather not, or memcache. Is there any other solution recommended for authentication? Or maybe write my own? There's customer login, affiliate login and admin login. Neither will login on same browser at same time, but the overflow issue seems to be common in exceeding the 4k limit once you do 2 logins using cookies with Devise. Other than that its been a very user friendly and quite powerful gem. Thanks for any pointers. -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
