Rails - Feb 2006 - Sharing sessions between subdomains?

Hello,
    
   I know how to share sessions between subdomains  in PHP. Can anyone please
guide me as to how I can share sessions using  Ruby? Where can I set the value
of domain for which the cookie is set?
    
    I would like for a user to login on the home page and then go to
blog.home.com and not have to login again.
    
    Any guidance/pointers are appreciated.
    
    Thanks''
    Frank
			
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softwareengineer 99 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I know how to share sessions between subdomains  in PHP. Can anyone 
> please guide me as to how I can share sessions using  Ruby? Where can I 
> set the value of domain for which the cookie is set?
> 
>     I would like for a user to login on the home page and then go to 
> blog.home.com and not have to login again.
> 
>     Any guidance/pointers are appreciated.
> 
>     Thanks''
>     Frank
Isn''t that just a matter of how you have your cookie set?

Instead of setting the domain of the cookie to ''blog.home.com''
just set
it to ''.home.com'' and then that cookie should be valid for any
host
under the ''home.com'' domain.

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sach wrote:
> softwareengineer 99 wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>    I know how to share sessions between subdomains  in PHP. Can anyone 
>> please guide me as to how I can share sessions using  Ruby? Where can I
>> set the value of domain for which the cookie is set?
>>
>>     I would like for a user to login on the home page and then go to 
>> blog.home.com and not have to login again.
>>
>>     Any guidance/pointers are appreciated.
>>
>>     Thanks''
>>     Frank
> 
> Isn''t that just a matter of how you have your cookie set?
> 
> Instead of setting the domain of the cookie to
''blog.home.com'' just set
> it to ''.home.com'' and then that cookie should be valid
for any host
> under the ''home.com'' domain.
I believe the question was ''how''...  The answer is here:

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Cookies.html

-- 
Alex

Thanks Alex for your reply.
  
  Should the cookies be set in application.rb? I tried using
  cookies[:domain]=''domain.com'' but got an "undefined
variable" error?
  
  Where should this setting for cookies  be set if I want it to be applied on a
application wide level?
  
  I also tried my controller file but to no avail?
  
  Then I placed the cookie settings in environment.rb. I don''t get an
error but the session isn''t recognized on the subdomain?
  
  I appreciate your assistance very much.
  
  Thanks
  Frank
  
  
Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:

I believe the question was ''how''...  The answer is here:

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Cookies.html

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You need to set the session domain in your production.rb

ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS.update(
:session_domain => ''.suprglu.com'')

For develpment&&testing you should change test.rb, and development.rb:

ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS.update(
:session_domain => ''.localhost.com'')

then configure your /etc/hosts file to map localhost.com,
something.localhost.com to 127.0.0.1. You now have a subdomained
development setup at your disposal!

For functional tests you would place this into test/test_helper.rb

module ActionController
  class TestRequest
    def with_subdomain(subdomain=nil)
      the_host_name = "localhost.com"
      the_host_name = "#{subdomain}.localhost.com" if subdomain
      self.host = the_host_name
      self.env[''SERVER_NAME''] = the_host_name
      self.env[''HTTP_HOST''] = the_host_name
    end
  end
end

then for test suites needing subdomained requests you can add this to your
setup:

@request.with_subdomain(''primalgrasp'')

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Thanks for your reply.
  I am setting the cookie to .home.com in my login function but when I go to
blog.home.com, the session isn''t being recognized.
  
  Can anyone please guide me on where is the optimal place to set the cookie?
  Thanks
  Frank    

sach <rubyforum@gaffle.com> wrote:  softwareengineer 99
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I know how to share sessions between subdomains  in PHP. Can anyone 
> please guide me as to how I can share sessions using  Ruby? Where can I 
> set the value of domain for which the cookie is set?
> 
>     I would like for a user to login on the home page and then go to 
> blog.home.com and not have to login again.
> 
>     Any guidance/pointers are appreciated.
> 
>     Thanks''
>     Frank
Isn''t that just a matter of how you have your cookie set?

Instead of setting the domain of the cookie to ''blog.home.com''
just set
it to ''.home.com'' and then that cookie should be valid for any
host
under the ''home.com'' domain.

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Hi Zsombor,
  
  Thank you very much for your reply.
  I will test it out right now.
  
  Thanks again.
  Frank

Dee Zsombor <dee.zsombor@gmail.com> wrote:  You need to set the session
domain in your production.rb

ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS.update(
:session_domain => ''.suprglu.com'')

For develpment&&testing you should change test.rb, and development.rb:

ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS.update(
:session_domain => ''.localhost.com'')

then configure your /etc/hosts file to map localhost.com,
something.localhost.com to 127.0.0.1. You now have a subdomained
development setup at your disposal!

For functional tests you would place this into test/test_helper.rb

module ActionController
  class TestRequest
    def with_subdomain(subdomain=nil)
      the_host_name = "localhost.com"
      the_host_name = "#{subdomain}.localhost.com" if subdomain
      self.host = the_host_name
      self.env[''SERVER_NAME''] = the_host_name
      self.env[''HTTP_HOST''] = the_host_name
    end
  end
end

then for test suites needing subdomained requests you can add this to your
setup:

@request.with_subdomain(''primalgrasp'')

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Hello Zsombor,
  
  >> You need to set the session domain in your production.rb
  
  I placed the following code in production.rb, development.rb and test.rb
  
  ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS.update(:session_domain
=> ''.domain.com'')
  
  and the functional tests snippet in test/test_helper.rb.
  
  Then I restarted the server and logged in at domain.com. Then I went to 
blog.domain.com and it''s not recognizing session and asking me again 
for password.
  
  Did I miss something? 
  
  I highly appreciate your assistance.

  Frank
  P.S. I just added your blog to my reading list ;)

  
		
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I spoke too soon as after clearing the cookies it works!
  Zsombor, thank you so much for your time and assistance. I owe you one ;)
  
  Frank

softwareengineer 99 <softwareengineer99@yahoo.com> wrote:  Hello Zsombor,
  
  >> You need to set the session domain in your production.rb
  
  I placed the following code in production.rb, development.rb and test.rb
  
  ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS.update(:session_domain
=> ''.domain.com'')
  
  and the functional tests snippet in test/test_helper.rb.
  
  Then I restarted the server and logged in at domain.com. Then I went to 
blog.domain.com and it''s not recognizing session and asking me again 
for password.
  
  Did I miss something? 
  
  I highly appreciate your assistance.

  Frank
  P.S. I just added your blog to my reading list ;)

      

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On Feb 8, 2006, at 3:39 AM, softwareengineer 99 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know how to share sessions between subdomains in PHP. Can anyone  
> please guide me as to how I can share sessions using Ruby? Where  
> can I set the value of domain for which the cookie is set?
>
> I would like for a user to login on the home page and then go to  
> blog.home.com and not have to login again.
>
> Any guidance/pointers are appreciated.
>
> Thanks''
> Frank

Frank-

	I think this is what you need. This line goes in config/environments/ 
production.rb or development.rb:


ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS.update 
( :session_domain => ''.example.com'')


	Note the . before example.com , that is what makes the sessions work  
between subdomains.

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> ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS.update
> ( :session_domain => ''.example.com'')
What if I don''t know session_domain at this stage. Can I set it up in 
controller? How?

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