[Rails] Re: CGI and FastCGI problems

[Francois GORET]

On Friday 16 December 2005 20:22, Rick wrote:
> We've also had this problem and used this solution.  However no one here
> has (so far) been able to say what the problem actually is and how to
> cure it long term.
>
> Anyone?

Had been bitten too by this problem for 2 different causes:

1) too many sessions in /tmp dir. Found a solution in the "Ruby on Rails" 
book, which is to have cron issuing the following command from time to time:

find /tmp/ -name 'ruby_sess*' -ctime +12h -delete

2) much more fun with change in the application: the objects kept in the 
session file could not be 'marshaled' back as their base class has had some 
changes. Solution: be sure that the browser is killed "for good", do not try 
to reuse an existing cookie and make a fresh login in the application after 
each change. 

Francois