The things that make web development with Ruby on Rails so easy, and dare I say fun, can also sometimes get in the way or cause unexpected problems (not fun). Rails sessions are generated automatically which is cool if you need sessions for say a shopping cart app. However if you don’t need sessions, or you want to handle data tracking in a different way with Flex/Flash’s Shared Objects, Rails will still chug along and output a session unless you tell it not to.

Here’s how to stop the session madness. Open up the WebORB controller and add this line ‘session :disabled => true‘.

class WeborbController < ApplicationController

  session :disabled => true

This is not Remoting specific and works for any controller in a Rails app. Rails sessions will keep multiplying like those furry things from that infamous Star Trek episode (Tribbles, thanks Google). eventually you’ll need a CRON job on your server to delete sessions from the tmp/sessions folder (or the database if you’re using ActiveRecord Store), so you might as well not create them in the first place and avoid a mess to clean up!

Here’s a good article on Rails sessions.