Access session variable using jQuery

Question

I need to render an HTML element in rails, depending upon whether a session variable is set or not. Is it possible to do something like this?

Answer 1

Session is server side, I am not a rails developer, but in asp.net mvc I made an ajax call that gets the Session value and returns it back to client. Just an idea.

Answer 2

You cannot access any server side variable from client side. You can basically render the session variable value in a javascript variable and use it on the client side in jquery.