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Maybe this should apply to Ruby forums directly, but I''ll try here. I understand the concept of classes and subclasses thanks to the excellent "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer''s Guide". However, I don''t understand what :: signify in terms of inheritance, parent and child in e.g. ActionController::Base -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

is it true that Rails depend on cookies? It seems that flash is a part of session, and session uses cookies... so when i disable cookie in Firefox, what was working became ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken so is it true that for a RoR app to work, cookies are mandatory? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

When creating a scaffold you get a layout file. How does it work? I thought I would find the var @content_for_layout in the controller, but I didn''t. Where is layouts defined or controlled? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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''

could someone help me with cookies. I need help setting them and using them for output and etc. thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I used to have Simple Captcha installed, but since I removed it I got all kinds of problems with login. Processing UsersController#login (for 188.177.122.179 at 2010-09-19 12:21:09) [POST] Parameters: {"commit"=>"OK", "authenticity_token"=>"/ Y0aZETCsMhyI3CkrZJK6O2NaLEoi+LRe8ZuDPWU9kc=",

hello, I am trying to implement a "remember be" box for logins, however I cant seem to get it to work. I have tried the following 2 methods but neither seem to work. When i check the expiry time in firefox it always says "end of session". What is the proper way to handle this so the session cookie "_session_id" doesnt expire for a year? I tried

All, I''ve upgraded to 2.0.2, and I can''t get my login screen (the first POST request in the application) to work. When I post this form, I see the "InvalidAuthenticityToken" error. I have protect_from_forgery :secret => ''my_secret'' set in application.rb and I am using an active_record session store based on this line in environment.rb:

The Agile book seems to say I should specify this as follows, probably in the environments.rb: ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS[:database_manager] = CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore BUT the environments.rb file would have me Un-Comment this: config.action_controller.session_store = :active_record_store Anyway, I''ve tried both, and in both cases it

How to set the default language in GetText? The default language of GetText is en,and I want to change it to another language,and also keep the ability to change to any other languages by just click the according href. Currently I use: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base before_filter :set_charset def set_charset @headers["Content-Type"] = "text/html;

Why does rails keep installing cookies on users machines, even if I am not ussing th session variable for anything? How do I stop this? Thanks, Scott -- Easily help charity when you shop: www.GiveTeam.org I''m a member of the Give Team, are you?

What are the possibilities of file manipulation in RoR? How do you create a .html or .rhtml file with ruby to be placed in the public folder, with custom content? Btw, where is RoR root? Is that ''public''? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am using the restful authentication plugin and am always prompted to login if a different subdomain is accessed. I have found a couple rails "solutions", but none of them seem to work: # development.rb 1. ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS[:session_key] = ".localhost" 2. ActionController::Base.session_options[:key] = ".localhost" Does anyone

What are the different parts of; class TestController < ActionController::Base? I look at the http://api.rubyonrails.org/ and try to understand but I don''t. Could someone give me a hint? I get the part of Test being the "folder", def and all that, but I can''t find an explanation of the basic stuff. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m having problems trying to set up facebooker on a Rails 2.3.2 project using :active_record_store for cookies. The problem happens because of this commit: http://github.com/mmangino/facebooker/commit/308770447db06433e505aaf27db2614cee213cc2 That code is trying to add the Rack::Facebook to the dispatch chain after ActionController::RewindableInput or

I''ve been looking around for how to store the session ID in a cookie. The "Agile Web Development with Rails" books seems to indicate that this is done by default with Rails. But I don''t see a cookie being set in my browser. (yeah, they''re enabled) I poked through the RForum code to find something referencing "cookies" but nothing came up. Does

Hi, i need that all the subdomains of an app (using subdomain_fu) use ''.domain.com'' as domain for all cookies. I''ve set ActionController::Base.session_options[:domain] = ''.domain.com'' and it works...for just the session... how can i set this also for common cookies ? (created with cookies[:name] = {:value => value, :expires => 6.months.from_now} )

Hi We have a rails application deployed and working fine. Along with this, we are planning to add "Opinion" forum. The url of the forum will be like http://forum.mymainsite.com Is it possible to share the session (that is, if the user is already logged in on the main site, he need not log in again on the forum section). Is it possible to add the ''opinion'' as a

Anyone ever get an error message such as this? "the change you want was rejected. Maybe you changed something you didn''t have access to."" I haven''t been able to see this in testing, but I''m getting reports out on the field from a few users trying to register to one of my websites. -S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

My application, a very simple general ledger, that worked very well until June 26 does not work any longer. It is used under Ubuntu 12.04 and I believe there was a Ruby update after that. What happens? When I try to start the appIication I get the following output in my web browser: ActionDispatch::Session::SessionRestoreError Session contains objects whose class definition isn''t