MongoSessionStore

Description

MongoSessionStore is a collection of Rails-compatible session stores for MongoMapper and Mongoid, but also included is a generic Mongo store that works with any (or no!) Mongo ODM.

MongoSessionStore is tested on Travis CI against Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.3, and JRuby. As of this writing, it also works on Rubinius in 1.9 mode and on Ruby 2.0.0.

If this gem doesn't work for you, you might next try mongo_sessions.

Usage

MongoSessionStore is compatible with Rails 3.1 and 3.2. (Use version 3.0.6 if you need Rails 3.0 support.)

In your Gemfile:

gem "mongo_mapper" # or "Mongoid," or another Mongo ODM, or nothing
gem "mongo_session_store-rails3"

In the session_store initializer (config/initializers/session_store.rb):

# MongoMapper
MyApp::Application.config.session_store :mongo_mapper_store

# Mongoid
MyApp::Application.config.session_store :mongoid_store

# anything else
MyApp::Application.config.session_store :mongo_store
MongoStore::Session.database = Mongo::Connection.new.db('my_app_development')

Note: If you choose to use :mongo_store you only need to set its database if you aren't using MongoMapper or Mongoid in your project.

By default, the sessions will be stored in the "sessions" collection in MongoDB. If you want to use a different collection, you can set that in the initializer:

MongoSessionStore.collection_name = "client_sessions"

And if for some reason you want to query your sessions:

# MongoMapper
MongoMapperStore::Session.where(:updated_at.gt => 2.days.ago)

# Mongoid
MongoidStore::Session.where(:updated_at.gt => 2.days.ago)

# Plain old Mongo
MongoStore::Session.where('updated_at' => { '$gt' => 2.days.ago })

Note that Mongoid 2 is no longer supported. Use version 3.0.6 if you use Mongoid and cannot upgrade to Mongoid 3.

Performance

The following is the benchmark run with bson_ext installed. Without bson_ext, speeds are about 10x slower. The benchmark saves 2000 sessions (~12kb each) and then finds/reloads each one.

$ ruby perf/benchmark.rb
MongoMapperStore...
3.65ms per session save
2.25ms per session load
           Total Size: 23648924
         Object count: 2000
  Average object size: 11824.462
          Index sizes: {"_id_"=>172032}
MongoidStore...
2.59ms per session save
1.33ms per session load
           Total Size: 23648924
         Object count: 2000
  Average object size: 11824.462
          Index sizes: {"_id_"=>172032}
MongoStore...
1.42ms per session save
1.11ms per session load
           Total Size: 23648924
         Object count: 2000
  Average object size: 11824.462
          Index sizes: {"_id_"=>204800}

Development

To run all the tests:

rake

To switch to the Gemfile.lock for a certain Rails version:

rake use_rails_31
rake use_rails_32

To run the tests for a specific store:

MONGO_SESSION_STORE_ORM=mongo_mapper bundle exec rspec spec
MONGO_SESSION_STORE_ORM=mongoid bundle exec rspec spec
MONGO_SESSION_STORE_ORM=mongo bundle exec rspec spec    

Previous contributors

MongoSessionStore started as a fork of the DataMapper session store, modified to work with MongoMapper and Mongoid. Much thanks to all the previous contributors:

• Nicolas Mérouze
• Chris Brickley
• Tony Pitale
• Nicola Racco
• Matt Powell
• Ryan Fitzgerald

License

Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Brian Hempel Copyright (c) 2010 Nicolas Mérouze Copyright (c) 2009 Chris Brickley Copyright (c) 2009 Tony Pitale

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