Active Record Session expiration in Rails 2.3

Rails
1

Hi,

I cannot figure out how to let session cookies expire after let’s say
two years. Note that I am not using CookieStore. I mean the cookie
referencing the Active Record Session.

Here is my config/environnement.rb

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[…]

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
[…]
config.action_controller.session = {
:key => “…”,
:secret=>"…",
}

end

[…]

ActionController::Base.session_store = :active_record_store
ActionController::Base.session_options[:session_expires]=(Time.now+2.years)

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Sessions are correctly stored in the database, but the cookie expires
when the browser is quit. I tried everything!

I used to rely on SQLSessionStore, which let my cookies expire as I
wanted, but since SQLSessionStore doesn’t seem to work with 2.3…

If someone could help, it would be great!

Thank you
Nauhaie

2

Session cookies are supposed to expire when you quit the browser!

Ordinary cookies however are another matter entirely. I asked a
similar question (how to get non session cookies to be stored in the
database) a few days ago and got no answer.

Best of luck.

3

Hi,

Thank you for your answer! However, I am sure it is possible to make
these session cookies stay! The option exists, and it always worked for
me until 2.3! I know ActiveRecord Session Store has been refactored in
this version (at least renamed), and I am sure this is merely a question
of setting the option in the wrong place!

Any idea?

Thank you
Nauhaie

Peter H. wrote:

Session cookies are supposed to expire when you quit the browser!

Ordinary cookies however are another matter entirely. I asked a
similar question (how to get non session cookies to be stored in the
database) a few days ago and got no answer.

Best of luck.

4

Hello mate,

I’m wonder how to use database sessions store instead of cookies.
Rails 2.3

thx

On 2月2æ—¥, 上午10æ—¶16分, Nauhaie N. [email protected]

5

Oh, I found the reason

:session_expires has been replaced by :expire_after.

This now works:

ActionController::Base.session_options[:expire_after]=2.years

6

new on ror wrote:

Hello mate,

I’m wonder how to use database sessions store instead of cookies.
Rails 2.3

environment.rb

config.action_controller.session_store = :active_record_store

7

Robert W. wrote:

new on ror wrote:

Hello mate,

I’m wonder how to use database sessions store instead of cookies.
Rails 2.3

environment.rb

config.action_controller.session_store = :active_record_store

What I wonder is what are the advantages of using an active record
session store?

I assume people do this for a few reasons:

  1. Need to persist sessions between browser launches. I would consider
    this in only in very rare cases. It’s my opinion that session cookies in
    their current form are even too lenient. An HTML 5 local session storage
    object seems like the ideal choice, given that they limit a session to a
    single browser window instance, having the same life-cycle and
    encapsulation as the window. They also seem to fix a common problem with
    cookies leaking out to other domains. Local storage objects are bound to
    the domain that created them without the loopholes cookies allow. Too
    bad this isn’t yet a viable option, but hopefully one day will be.

  2. Need to store more that 4K of session data. In most cases this
    shouldn’t be an issue given that it’s good practice to keep sessions as
    small as possible. And again HTML 5 local session storage eliminates
    this limitation (something else to look forward to in the future).

  3. Need to store sensitive data inside session objects. I cringe as I
    write that. It just sounds like such a bad idea. But, I suppose that’s
    why encryption was invented.

What are some other reasons I’ve not listed here?

8

What I wonder is what are the advantages of using an active record
session store?

I assume people do this for a few reasons:

  1. Need to persist sessions between browser launches…ay will be.

  2. Need to store more that 4K of session data…

  3. Need to store sensitive data inside session objects…

  1. Need multiple app servers to scale by using the same data store.

What are some other reasons I’ve not listed here?

9

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Marc
Hassman[email protected] wrote:

  1. Need multiple app servers to scale by using the same data store.

Cookie based session store does that without hitting your database
server.

Maurício Linhares
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