As a first test project, I'm writing a little Rails app that simply
lets one browse the directory structure on the server. (Obviously,
this isn't intended for public deployment 
). One thing that needs
to be stored in a session is the currently browsed directory. What's
the best way to store such simple data? (I sorta think a database
table is overkill )
Thanks, Ken
ken wrote:
As a first test project, I'm writing a little Rails app that simply lets one browse the directory structure on the server. (Obviously, this isn't intended for public deployment
Store it in a cookie.
Rails has a session management mechanism already built for you. Just use that. Store your value in the session hash then you can just configure Rails to store sessions either in a file (the default) or in the database if you prefer that.
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