I have a basic login form rendered as a component in the sidebar of my main layout view. Whether or not the login succeeds, the controller redirects to the main index to refresh the sidebar. On success, I set the session[:user_id] to @user.id as usual. The problem is that ''index'' gets rendered in the sidebar. However, when I comment out "session[:user_id] = @user.id", redirect_to properly refreshes ''index''. Has anyone had this problem or have a solution for doing sidebar logins? Why would sessions affect redirect_to? Thanks, Boram (As an aside, I previously attempted to implement this sidebar/login form using AJAX, but failed. The session was getting deleted after the redirect call in Javascript (window.location.href)...but that''s another story). -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.