I've got a Rails 2.2.3 that I recently upgraded to 2.3.4. I made a new Rails tree and copied most of the stuff under "config" over (from the new tree to my existing tree) in order to get things to a clean 2.3.x state. Rails is frozen-in under "vendor" and "script/server" verifies I'm running 2.3.4, so there's no old code lying around.
I decided to try out memcache-based sessions on my Rails app, according to this URL:
I've got memcache-client installed, and my config/initializers/ session_store.rb looks like this:
require 'memcache' CACHE = MemCache.new(:namespace => 'myprojectname') CACHE.servers = 'localhost:11211'
ActionController::Base.session = { :session_key => '_myprojectname_session', :cache => CACHE, :expires => 86400, :secret => '128-random-characters' } ActionController::Base.session_store = :mem_cache_store
Now, sessions work fine. The only trouble is, my application doesn't yet touch the session in any conceivable way -- and yet, according to my memcached logs, I'm getting sessions fetched and stored with every single request. This runs contrary to the claims in the 2.3.x changelogs, which say that sessions are lazy-loaded and only loaded/ stored when accessed now.
I've tried multiple environments in case it was specific to one of them: WEBrick, Thin, FastCGI. All the same behaviour.
Since I only plan to use sessions for a small part of the application, this is rather sub-optimal, not least because anyone who disables cookies (including myself, typically) is going to be spamming my session store with a new session every request.
I realise I can just disable sessions for controllers I don't want, but while there are only a few parts of the app that will write to the session, there are several that will want to read it (if available). Plus, disabling sessions per controller is deprecated because it's supposedly unnecessary these days (due to lazy loading), isn't it? That's the main reason I bothered to upgrade in the first place.
Am I missing something here, or is lazy loading just not implemented for memcached sessions?