With mongo_session_store-rails3, session doesn't seem to work

Question

I'm having a problem with sessions in rails 3.2 when I use mongoid as SessionStore. I decided to use Brian Hempel's fork of mongo_session_store gem, as it was updated last month.

Before switching to this gem, I was using the default cookie-based session store, and it was working without problem. But now, even flash doesn't work when I redirect to another page. Session data seems to be reset on every single request.

And as a side-question: every request creates a new session document in db! Is it right? I'm confused. =(

I put these lines in my Gemfile:

gem 'mongoid', :git => 'git://github.com/mongoid/mongoid.git'
gem 'bson_ext', "~> 1.5"
gem 'mongo_session_store-rails3', '~> 3.0.5'

Then in my config/initializers/session_store.rb:

SomeAppName::Application.config.session_store :mongoid_store

sessions_controller.rb:

class SessionsController < ApplicationController
  def new
    ...
  end
  def create
    user = User.find_by_identifier(params[:identifier])
    if user && user.authenticate(params[:password])
      session[:uid] = user._id
      redirect_to root_url, :notice => "Logged in!"
    else
      flash.now.alert = "Invalid email or password"
      render :new
    end
  end
  def destroy
    ...
  end
end

If any other part of my code is needed, please tell me to post it. Thanks in advance.

have you check on your database if a session document is save or not ? — shingara, Apr 04 '12 at 07:52
Yes. As I said, the `sessions` collection is there and for every request, a new `session` document is created inside it. — Abbas Mashayekh, Apr 04 '12 at 09:23

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 03 '13 at 07:39

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Gem author here. Version 4.0.0 was just released, which supports Mongoid 3.

gem 'mongo_session_store-rails3', '~> 4.0.0'

answered Jan 03 '13 at 07:39

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 23 '12 at 01:50

Have similar and other issues in my project. After changed to branch of cubewebsites all works as expected.

Branch description:

This fork aims to address a couple of issues I was having with the master branch:

 <class:Session>': undefined method `collection_name=' for ActionDispatch::Session::MongoidStore::Session:Class (NoMethodError)

and

 <class:Session>': uninitialized constant ActionDispatch::Session::MongoidStore::Session::BSON (NameError)

With mongo_session_store-rails3, session doesn't seem to work

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