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

Since your app is a Rails app, I would suggest either:

1. Using your clients' ability to cache by caching the cards in javascript. (you'd need a fairly ajaxy app to do this, see the latest RailsCast for some interesting points on javascript page caching)
2. Use one of the many other rails-supported server-side caching options (i.e. MemCached) to cache this data.