# Remove session string from css and js file? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 20, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-session-string-from-css-and-js-file/107325 "2007-06-20T15:30:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nickmenow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nickmenow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nickmenow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-session-string-from-css-and-js-file/107325/1 "2007-06-20T15:30:58Z")
How do you remove the session string from the css and js file? I have already set the ApplicationController session :disabled =\> true Any suggestions or a site that already has this solution? Thank you, Nickmenow ---
**Author:** ![nickmenow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nickmenow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nickmenow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-session-string-from-css-and-js-file/107325/2 "2007-06-20T15:32:03Z")
NICKMENOW wrote: > How do you remove the session string from the css and js file? > I have already set the ApplicationController session :disabled =\> true > > Any suggestions or a site that already has this solution? > > Thank you, > > Nickmenow Sorry I forgot the example =\> .js?1168472848 ---
**Author:** ![nickmenow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nickmenow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nickmenow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-session-string-from-css-and-js-file/107325/3 "2007-06-20T15:54:47Z")
On 6/20/07, NICKMENOW [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Sorry I forgot the example =\> .js?1168472848 That’s not the session string; it’s the mtime for the javascript file. There’s a pretty good writeup on this at [Blog - Catamount Hardware](http://hypsometry.com/blog/) (search for “on browser caching”). Why do you want to remove it? ---
**Author:** ![nickmenow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nickmenow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nickmenow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-session-string-from-css-and-js-file/107325/4 "2007-06-20T16:34:01Z")
Thank you to Bob S… Here is what I have found out. To turn off Tim Lucus’ plugin for Asset Timestamping (Rails default since Rails 1.12.1 add this to your root/config/environment.rd file ENV[“RAILS\_ASSET\_ID”] = ‘’ Restart the server and reload the page. ---
**Author:** ![nickmenow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nickmenow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nickmenow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-session-string-from-css-and-js-file/107325/5 "2007-06-20T16:21:34Z")
Bob S. wrote: > On 6/20/07, NICKMENOW [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Sorry I forgot the example =\> .js?1168472848 > > That’s not the session string; it’s the mtime for the javascript file. > There’s a pretty good writeup on this at [Blog - Catamount Hardware](http://hypsometry.com/blog/) > (search for “on browser caching”). > > Why do you want to remove it? Thank you for the reply…I’m going to go look at it now. I need to remove it so I can eliminate various troubles I am having with a “site grabber” program that I am using. The site grabber grabs the site and puts all the static data into a set of HTML files that can be used off line. Sales and the CEO are unable to use RoR. The prototypes are static versions of applications anyway - no DB and no dynamic data. I use RoR for many attractive qualities like the rapid development, agile changes and MVC organization because the prototypes get changed so often. Do you know of a GEM, plugin or anything else that will take a RoR site and make it pure HTML files? Keeping file structure and eliminating the need to see a file extension will be a bonus.