OT: Ruby & Sessions

Ruby
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Although I’ve been programing for 45 years, I am new to both Ruby and
web programming.

I have been reading the Ruby on Rails book and I’m totally lost about
session data.

I understand that each request is stateless.

Can any recommend an overview of GET/POST, cookies, sessions, etc.,
and how Ruby on Rails interacts with all of this?

How does a huge website (e.g. Amazon) maintain session data? Where
does it keep the user/session-specific data? Does it make sense to
somehow tie the session data to a user name/id/password?

I’m so confused.

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Ralph S. wrote:

Although I’ve been programing for 45 years, I am new to both Ruby and
web programming.

I have been reading the Ruby on Rails book and I’m totally lost about
session data.

I understand that each request is stateless.

Can any recommend an overview of GET/POST, cookies, sessions, etc.,
and how Ruby on Rails interacts with all of this?

How does a huge website (e.g. Amazon) maintain session data? Where
does it keep the user/session-specific data? Does it make sense to
somehow tie the session data to a user name/id/password?

I’m so confused.

This is a question for the Rails list. It is off topic for the main
Ruby list

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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Ralph S. wrote:

MLK> This is a question for the Rails list. It is off topic for the
main
MLK> Ruby list

Could you point me at that list, please.

Go to www.rubyonrails.com

Click on “community”

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Marnen,

MLK> This is a question for the Rails list. It is off topic for the
main
MLK> Ruby list

Could you point me at that list, please.

Ralph