How force that session is loaded?

Question

I\'m working on an application that needs to use session id information. My session is stored in cookies. The problem I have is that my session is not immediately available

Answer 1

I found a way to force initialization of the session. Accessing the session apparently does not force initialization but writing into the session does. What I do in my controller is this now:

class MyController < ApplicationController
  protect_from_forgery
  def index
    session["init"] = true
    do_stuff
  end
end

Still I'm not sure if this should be considered normal behavior in Rails. It doesn't look right to me having to write into the session to force initialization. Reading should be enough.