Where are session variables stored in Rails?

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rubyprince picture rubyprince · Sep 6, 2011 · Viewed 29.9k times · Source

hard disk, main memory or somewhere else. I am not asking for the case where these are stored in database.

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wanderfalke picture wanderfalke · Sep 6, 2011

By default rails uses cookies to store the session data. All data is stored in the client, not on the server.

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