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Cookie in rest-client Ruby

Is it possible to add cookie like 

key[index]=value

Here is my code

options[:headers][:cookies] = {:cookie_key => 'cookie_value'}
resource[options[:path]].get(options[:headers])

This code works fine but when I try something like

options[:headers][:cookies] = {:cookie_key => {} }

I get /../../util.rb:16:in 'unescape': undefined method 'tr' for #<Hash:0x0000000195f7d0> (NoMethodError)

Solution

  • Cookies basically can only store strings (for each first-level key).

    In order to store hash in cookies values, you need serialize/deserialize the data, for example, with JSON

    cookies[:i_need_to_store_hash] = hsh.to_json

    and than

    i_need_to_get_my_hash_back = JSON.parse(cookies[:i_need_to_store_hash])

    but remember that cookies very limited in size (4096 bytes)