Storing Objects in a Session in Rails

Question

I have always been taught that storing objects in a session was a bad idea. Instead IDs should be stored that retrieve the record when needed.

However, I have an ap

Answer 1

Rails tends to encourage RESTful design, and using sessions isn't very RESTful. I'd probably make a Quiz resource that has a bunch of words, as well as a current_word. This way, when they come back, you'll know where they were.

Now, REST isn't everything (depending on who you talk to), but there's a pretty good case against large sessions. Remember that sessions write things to and from disk, and the more data that you're writing, the longer it takes to read back...