Rails - Mar 2006 - Best way to cookie a user?

After login, I do ''session[:user] = @user''. What''s
the best way to
cookie this user for later visits after the session expires? I presume 
simply cookieing their user id or email is a bad idea and that a salted 
hash should be used.

Thanks,
Joe

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