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Great Gem,

I believe I found a small typo on your readme.md under example usage

str = if request.env['affiliate.tag] ...

• Forgot the apostrophe after affiliate.tag, should read

str = if request.env['affiliate.tag'] ...

I want my affiliates to be able to link directly to a post in our app... for example htttp://example.com/posts/1?aff=123ABC

However, when I do this it sets the cookie path as /posts and does not find the cookie in the controller.

When I use this link http://example.com?aff=123ABC the cookie path gets set as / and everything works as expected. I'm able to retrieve the cookie in the controller...

I couldn't seem to find any options in this gem relating to cookie Path... I think what I'm looking to do is set the default path as / for each cookie.

Any ideas on how I can get this to work with any path?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

How can I redirect to homepage from the original of /?ref=xxxx

I installed the middleware and am now getting random internal server errors when loading any page on my site. The log says:

!! Unexpected error while processing request: deadlock; recursive locking

I believe this is due to instantiation of Rack::Response in order to set the cookies. This is unnecessary since the cookies can be set with Rack::Utils.set_cookie_header! instead.

Setting the cookies this way resolves the problem for me. I'll submit a pull request with this change.

The docs doesn't mention Rails 5 anywhere, I have been working with it on rails 5 and so far so good, you should add it to the README.

Hi Alex,

I follow the setup steps as per your readme, but hitting error "uninitialized constant Rack::Affiliates (NameError)" in config/application.rb. Kindly advise what goes wrong?

1º This is my config:

config.middleware.use Rack::Affiliates, {:param => 'aff_id', :ttl => 6.months, :domain => '.localhost'}

2º I send a email with a link and param aff_id something like:
<%= link_to "accept invite", new_user_registration_url(:aff_id => @user.id) %>

3º In root action in a controller:

  def index
    if request.env['affiliate.tag'] && affiliate = User.find_by_affiliate_tag(request.env['affiliate.tag'])
      logger.info "Halo, referral! You've been referred here by #{affiliate.name} from #{request.env['affiliate.from']} @ #{Time.at(env['affiliate.time'])}"
    else
      logger.info "We're glad you found us on your own!"
    end
   respond_to do |format|
     format.html
   end
 end

I'm getting the message on console:

We're glad you found us on your own!

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

The design of the rack-affiliates based on sessions/cookies.

a project is needed to be converted to API mode with angular.

is it possible to make the project API support?