Rails - Feb 2006 - Session Data Question

I am still to new to rails to feel comfortable diving into the source  
for the framework however my comfort is getting better. My question  
is this. We are storing the session data in the database using  
active_record_store. I was looking at the table to just get a better  
idea of what is going on as far as how the data is stored. I am a bit  
curious as to the session.data field. What method is rails using to  
create that string? and how is it pulling the data out of the string  
when you call something like session[:user] where :user is the user.id?

Thanks for any response. I am more curious than anything the session  
stuff seems like magic to me and just curious on learning more about  
that magic.

andrew

AFAIK,

Base64.encode64(Marchal.dump(session))

Kent
---
http://www.datanoise.com


On 2/17/06, Andrew Filipowski <a.filipowski@mac.com>
wrote:
> I am still to new to rails to feel comfortable diving into the source
> for the framework however my comfort is getting better. My question
> is this. We are storing the session data in the database using
> active_record_store. I was looking at the table to just get a better
> idea of what is going on as far as how the data is stored. I am a bit
> curious as to the session.data field. What method is rails using to
> create that string? and how is it pulling the data out of the string
> when you call something like session[:user] where :user is the user.id?
>
> Thanks for any response. I am more curious than anything the session
> stuff seems like magic to me and just curious on learning more about
> that magic.
>
> andrew
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>