On sessions, cookies, and debugging in Rails

Jeffrey Hardy,
Nov 28, 2007

To borrow a move from Ruby Inside, here are a few Rails tidbits that don’t need separate posts, but that you’re likely to find quite useful when learning Rails.

Everything you need to know about sessions and cookies

This article is long. But it’s the best writeup on sessions and cookies as they pertain to the Rails framework I’ve yet read.

http://www.quarkruby.com/2007/10/21/sessions-and-cookies-in-ruby-on-rails

Debugging Rails applications with ruby-debug

The days of the breakpointer are long behind us. The new tool on the block is ruby-debug. Thankfully, Patrick Lenz has written the most complete guide to ruby-debug I’ve seen to date.

Debug your Rails app with ruby-debug