Binarylogic Authlogic

I'm sorry in advance if this is just the result of me not understanding something.

When I set a default value for remember_me in my UserSession class:

class UserSession < Authlogic::Session::Base
  self.remember_me = true # remember users by default
end

This default value is not taken into account when I try to do a login with UserSession.create(params[:user_session]) with no remember_me key in the params hash.

As I understand it, the problem arises in the credentials= method of Authlogic::Session::Cookies (starting line 55 in lib/authlogic/session/cookies.rb), more specifically on line 60:

self.remember_me = values.first.with_indifferent_access[:remember_me]

If no :remember_me key is present in the params hash, this line sets the instance variable @remember_me to nil.

This means that function remember_me (lines 68-71) always returns @remember_me without checking the value of the class variable, as it will always be defined (even if nil):

def remember_me
  return @remember_me if defined?(@remember_me)
  @remember_me = self.class.remember_me
end

My workaround is simply to add an "if" statement to line 60:

self.remember_me = values.first.with_indifferent_access[:remember_me] if values.first.with_indifferent_access.has_key?(:remember_me)

That way, @remember_me is only set when there is actually a :remember_me key in the credentials hash.