Rails - Feb 2006 - What one *cannot* store in a session???

Hi
Can someone tell me what i *cannot* store in a session.
For ex.
class TempController < ApplicationController

	
	def index
		session[:thread]=Thread.new do
		loop{}
		end
		render(:inline=>"abc")
		p ''post rendering''
		return
	end
	
end

does not work. although the print at the end of the method is executed, 
the string ''abc'' is not rendered. and when i check the session
again
session[:thread] returns nil.
Can someone tell me what i am doing wrong, or what i need to read, to 
understand what is going wrong
thanks
shodhan

Generally you can''t store things that are not serializable.  In this
case, Threads ;)

Other things might be file handles, sockets, database connections, etc.

Tony

On 2/11/06, shodhan <shodhan_sheth@persistent.co.in>
wrote:
> Hi
> Can someone tell me what i *cannot* store in a session.
> For ex.
> class TempController < ApplicationController
>
>
>         def index
>                 session[:thread]=Thread.new do
>                 loop{}
>                 end
>                 render(:inline=>"abc")
>                 p ''post rendering''
>                 return
>         end
>
> end
>
> does not work. although the print at the end of the method is executed,
> the string ''abc'' is not rendered. and when i check the
session again
> session[:thread] returns nil.
> Can someone tell me what i am doing wrong, or what i need to read, to
> understand what is going wrong
> thanks
> shodhan
>
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