Rails - Apr 2005 - Problem with rails on windows using sessions, any help?

Hi, I''m a new rails/ruby user and am having troubles with sessions
under windows. Maybe someone can help me? Env:
Webrick,WindowsXPPro,MySQL

Whenever I try to put an item in the session, and then retrieve it on
a future page load, the item is nil. Somehow it is not persisting the
session items after the request. I looked at the session files and
there are hundreds of them, I thought that might be the problem. So I
switched to use the ActiveRecordStore, and sure enough it creates
hundreds of rows, but somehow without ever actually persisting
something that I can get back.

I tried debugging the cgi_process code and found that it seems to be
creating a new CGI::Session object on every request. Is this normal
behavior? I''m not too terribly good at debugging yet, I can''t
figure
out how to log or puts in there, but if I use global variables I can
modify them and get it to puke by returning nil as the session. That''s
how I figured out it was creating a new session on every request.

Maybe someone also knows an easier way to debug the library code? Does
anyone know what the problem is? I searched the mailing list archives
and someone else asked a similar question 8 weeks ago without an
answer. I love ruby and rails so far, but this has got me quite
frustrated :/ Thanks for your help.

James Dwyer