Duration of session

Rails
1

Hi everyone,

how to set the duration of a session? Does
"ActionController::Base.session_options[:new_session] = … " work?
Another question is if i am using database for session storage, when a
session expires, will rails automatically remove the session record
from database for me?

thanks in advance,
xiahong

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On 1 Jul 2009, at 01:56, Xiahong G. wrote:

Hi everyone,

how to set the duration of a session? Does
"ActionController::Base.session_options[:new_session] = … " work?
Another question is if i am using database for session storage, when a
session expires, will rails automatically remove the session record
from database for me?

Nope. sessions never expire in that sense: the cookie containing the
session id will die when the user exits their browser but your app
does not (and in general cannot) know about that. It’s up to you to
periodically clean out old rows from the sessions table.

Fred

3

Assume session is deleted before the cookie holding its id expires, what
happens when client contacts server with this session id? does rails
allocate a new session with a different ID to replace this old session?

2009/7/1 Frederick C. [email protected]