Apologies for replying to my own post.
I have verified a couple more things:
1) In general, I can write to the session from my Radiant app. without
incident. Using these actions:
def modify_session
session[:number] = rand(1)
render :action = :session
end
def show_session
My problem is somehow created by Rails 2.3.9. When I put 2.3.8 back,
it works fine.
I did further verify that cookie contents are written upon a 302
redirect (which is what logout does, redirecting to login) in general.
Not sure what happened, but be forewarned, Rails 2.3.9 breaks the
