Active session list

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi all Does anybody know how to get active session list or list of active session ID in RubyOnRails?

Thanks

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if you're using Active Record Store, look at CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore::Session

Mike

3

Actually I used default store for session(as I understand it is file store). In any case I don't want to have dependency from session store type. I saw many sites with "Now [N] users on site" - so I think exists standard way to define active session list.

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the default session store for the next version of rails will be cookies.

You can follow the directions here:

http://habtm.com/articles/2005/12/15/whos-online

you should also look at sql session store, which is a very good replacement for ActiveRecord sessions:

http://railsexpress.de/blog/articles/2006/09/15/sqlsessionstore-now-available-as-a-plugin

Mike

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I don't want to use database as session storage... I thought about this issue and I think that I can extend "new" and "delete" method of session(ActionController::Integration::Session) class. 1. in "new" method I will add new session to global session list; 2. in "delete" method I will remove session from this list.

At current point I don't know how to create variable that exists in all application live cycle.

Andrew