Rails 3 disabling session cookies

Question

I have RESTful API written on RoR 3. I have to make my application not to send \"Set-Cookie header\" (clients are authorizing using auth_token parameter).

I have tri

Answer 1

Try this instead

after_filter :skip_set_cookies_header

def skip_set_cookies_header
  session.instance_variable_set('@loaded', false)
end

Or even better, always remove Set-Cookie header when session data did not change

before_filter :session_as_comparable_array # first before_filter
after_filter :skip_set_cookies_header      # last  after_filter

def session_as_comparable_array(obj = session)
  @session_as_comparable_array = case obj
  when Hash
    obj.keys.sort_by(&:to_s).collect{ |k| [k, session_as_comparable_array(obj[k])] }
  when Array
    obj.sort_by(&:to_s).collect{ |k| session_as_comparable_array(k) }
  else
    obj
  end
end

def skip_set_cookies_header
  session.instance_variable_set('@loaded', false) if (@session_as_comparable_array == session_as_comparable_array)
end