How Rails sessions work

What if your Rails app couldn’t tell who was visiting it? If you had no idea that the same person requested two different pages? If all the data you stored vanished as soon as you returned a response?

That might be fine for a mostly static site. But most apps need to be able to store some data about a user. Maybe it’s a user id, or a preferred language, or whether they always want to see the desktop version of your site on their iPad.

session is the perfect place to put this kind of data. Lit...