I am building a chat for some friends. Philosophy: just for fun.

I am not on rails, nor do I plan on welding any on the simple shared
hosting service that offers ruby 1.8 and eruby.

Anybody seen simple, lightweight session management lib for situation
like this?

, simple authication, thats about it. Something that can tell
serverside forms if user is logged in or not, basically.

I have read about cgi.session, but was wondering if someone has "worked
it further down the line..."

*Any* suggestions on how to approach/do it welcome.

Casimir
csmr.dreamhosters.com

If you're not too worried about security, you can always generate a
session similar to the way it's done for a web server (which honestly
is done from the ultra lame to the insanely overly complex). I didn't
notice a session id method in the standard Net/HTTP library, but that
doesn't mean there isn't one.

If you don't want to come up with your own, this article examines how
RoR generates session IDs*. It ends up being very simple, easy to
understand code
http://epsilondelta.net/2006/05/17/e...id-generation/

Good luck.
--Kyle

* Or at least how RoR generated session IDs in 2006.

On 31.03.2008 20:10, Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> If you're not too worried about security, you can always generate a
> session similar to the way it's done for a web server (which honestly
> is done from the ultra lame to the insanely overly complex). I didn't
> notice a session id method in the standard Net/HTTP library, but that
> doesn't mean there isn't one.

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/cg...I/Session.html

See http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/cgi/rdoc/index.html

Kind regards

robert