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session_store=

Ruby on Rails latest stable (v7.1.3.2) - 1 note - Class: ActionController::SessionManagement::ClassMethods

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Method deprecated or moved

This method is deprecated or moved on the latest stable version. The last existing version (v2.3.8) is shown here.

session_store=(store) public

Set the session store to be used for keeping the session data between requests. By default, sessions are stored in browser cookies (:cookie_store), but you can also specify one of the other included stores (:active_record_store, :mem_cache_store, or your own custom class.

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# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb, line 14
      def session_store=(store)
        if store == :active_record_store
          self.session_store = ActiveRecord::SessionStore
        else
          @@session_store = store.is_a?(Symbol) ?
            Session.const_get(store.to_s.camelize) :
            store
        end
      end

June 18, 2008

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Using memcached as a session store

Because of Ruby’s CGI library limitations, store cannot have any configuration options. Basically this means that you cannot easily run memcached on a different port (or with any non-default settings for that matter).

You can bypass this limitation with this ugly hack (environment.rb):

cache_params = *([memcache_servers, memcache_options].flatten)
CACHE = MemCache.new(*cache_params)
ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS.merge!({ 'cache' => CACHE })

In your initializer block, just configure session_store normally:

config.session_store = :mem_cache_store

I think this should be fixed to work like cache_store= does.

session_store=

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Method deprecated or moved

Using memcached as a session store