Ruby on rails session = nil

Question

Hi,

In a controller I have 2 actions

def action1
  session[:test]="test"
  render :text => session[:test]  # output test
end

def action2
  render :text => session[:test]  # output nil
end

I perform first action1 so the session is set Then I perform action2 but session[:test] is nil

So what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Cookies enabled? Assuming you are using the default cookie-based session_store, make sure you have cookies enabled while testing.

Schema in place? An activerecord session_store requires a sessions table with the correct columns (id, session_id, data) More info.

Answer 2

I have the same issue. The session object seems to be nil when entering the application controller.