Comments on: Requiring and Testing Cookies http://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:12:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jeff http://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-1569 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:54:26 +0000 https://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-1569 Thank you, Jim! This article has neatly solved the issues I’ve been struggling with for days now. Hooah!

–Jeff

]]> By: Duplo » Blog Archive » Rails Cookie Detection http://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-1497 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:42:04 +0000 https://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-1497 [...] test for a project at work. Letting google be my co-pilot, I ran across a blog post that mentioned a way to do it. The method is simple: given a request, check the session for the _session_id variable. If it [...]

]]> By: Jonah Burke http://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-540 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:06:48 +0000 https://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-540 Hey James, thanks for this post. I’ve created a plug-in based on your idea: http://svn.jonahb.com/projects/cookie_requirement

]]> By: Jim Halberg http://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-30 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:51:04 +0000 https://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-30 That’s right Kirstin. This is not about making a rails app work w/o cookies… it’s about presenting the user with a graceful message when cookies are disabled + testing that it all works.

]]> By: kirstin http://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-29 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:58:00 +0000 https://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-29 Rails uses session cookies, which aren’t persistant, and can’t be disabled.

]]> By: Pascal http://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-9 Thu, 18 May 2006 17:29:43 +0000 https://jameshalberg.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/requiring-and-testing-cookies/#comment-9 Nice trick! Thank you, Jim.

Any idea why @request.cookies won’t play nice with the “:_session_id” symbol? Would that be because of the way things get serialized into the actual request and the browser is having problems?

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