I am new to rails and ruby -- it's all beautiful. The documentation and community are helpful and clear. I thought I'd drop an e-mail to the group so it's here for any other noobs that search for this: I was searching on how to get the session information in my views while debugging and found the suggestion for <%= debug session %>. It works, but it can be a bit ugly, and gives all the information in the session. If I used <%= debug session.data %> I got just the data I had placed in the session - formatted the way ActionView::Helpers::DebugHelper.debug(object) shows from the API. I hope this helps somebody out. Thanks to the Rails community. Scott.