On Jan 18, 10:31 pm, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > James Byrne wrote in post #975862: > > > How does AR Session Store handle the case where there is no session? > > > In other words, some of the web pages that are produced by our > > application are meant to be publicly viewed without logging in. This > > seems to be the problem. It on the welcome page that the show action is > > causing the DBMS to throw a null entry error. > > Sessions are independent of authentication. Authentication frameworks > obviously use the session to keep track of the currently authenticated > user, but that should be the extent of their interaction, AFAIK.
even that doesn't have to be true - I seem to recall that authlogic sets it's own cookie with the user credentials it needs Fred > Sessions are created where there is user login or not. Calling > session[:some_key] will create a session if one does not already exist. > > I don't use AuthLogic myself, so if it is having issues with the session > store then I can't really help you. > > -- > 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.
