Why jQuery.cookie returns “[object Object]” for a single string value

Question

I set a cookie on Rails like this,

cookies[:account] = { :value => @account.to_s, :expires => 3.month.from_now }

Which seems to be workin

Answer 1

To anyone else that runs into this, check to make sure you don't have multiple cookies of the same name (with different paths or expirations). This can lead $.cookie() to return [object Object]