Session store failure does not report error anywhere

Francois Beausoleil
2005-12-17T17:15:37Z

Hi !

I don't know if you've seen the thread on the main Rails ML, but I
found a problem in Rails handling of session stores.

I configured the ActiveRecord session store, but had no sessions
table.  Rails did not automatically create the table, nor did it
report the missing table in the log, and finally, I did not get any
message in the browser (was running in production).

I think that this precondition should be checked at configuration
time.  My implementation would go something like this:

In ActionController::SessionManagement::ClassMethods#session_store=,
check if the proposed session store responds_to :validate!, and send
if so.

Then, implement ActiveRecordStore#validate!, and raise a configuration
error if we can't stat the table.

It's either that, or the table is created at that point.  How does
that sound as a plan ?
--
François Beausoleil
http://blog.teksol.info/

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