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Archie Reyes
Archie Reyes

Reputation: 51

How do sessions work in Ruby on Rails?

I want to know how sessions work in Ruby on Rails.

I already now that I can save a session with session[:user_id] = @user.id and retrieve it with session[:user_id].

Thus, does Rails save the session to cookie store, cache store, or database store?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2344

Answers (2)

Rokibul Hasan
Rokibul Hasan

Reputation: 4156

When you request a webpage, the server can set a cookie when it responds back. You can read this article, it will clear you concept about sessions. http://www.justinweiss.com/blog/2015/03/17/how-rails-sessions-work/

Upvotes: 1

Vince V.
Vince V.

Reputation: 3143

Sessions are kept serverside. It's saved on the webserver itself. This can be in a file/memory/database. The ID of that session is saved in a cookie on the user his browser to associate the user with the correct session.

More information can be found here:

What are sessions? How do they work?

Upvotes: 1

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