CookieStore and setting an expiration

Rails
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hi everyone,

i can’t seem to find any help online for this. I’m using
CookieStore. What I can’t seem to figure out how to do is set the
expiration for the cookie set by CookieStore. Right now it leaves
that field blank, meaning that the cookie expires when the browser is
closed. The context is for a login, where the user has the option to
check a “leave me logged in” option that would expire the cookie 2
weeks or 3 weeks later.

thanks,
etienne

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cookies[:key] = {:value => value, :expires => 3.weeks.from_now}

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That overwrites the cookie for the session. By the time they attempt
to login, a session has already begun for them. CookieStore is doing
the management behind the scenes. I want to amend the cookie to have
an expiration date which, it seems, it does not have by default.
etienne

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etienne [email protected] writes:

That overwrites the cookie for the session. By the time they attempt
to login, a session has already begun for them. CookieStore is doing
the management behind the scenes. I want to amend the cookie to have
an expiration date which, it seems, it does not have by default.
etienne

Try this in your config/environment.rb

config.action_controller.session = {
:session_key => ‘_yourapp’,
:secret => ‘yoursecret’,
:expire_after => 600 # seconds
}

It works for me.

Jarl