Accessing Cookie Data

[pjleonhardt]

Hey there,

I'm trying to implement a "Remember Me" option for a website I'm working on.

I'm creating the cookie using

cookie = CGI::Cookie.new("name" => "logged_in", "value"=> somedata, "expires" => (Time.now + 30.days))
response.headers["cookie"] << cookie

This creates the cookie fine.
How would I go about checking to see if the cookie is there, though??

Thanks in advance.

[Fenrir2]

Are you using Rails?

Then you can do this:

cookies[:logged_in]

to get the value of the cookie.

EDIT: there is an easier way to set it:

cookies[:logged_in] = {:value => somedata, :expires => Time.now + 30.days}

[pjleonhardt]

Funny... thats exactly what I was trying to do last night but it wasn't working. But what do ya know, it works perfectly now!!!

Thanks for the tip on setting it, that looks a lot nicer =)