Session management in Rails (2.3)

Question

Apparently, after upgrading to Rails 2.3 my session storage has stopped working. I used to have this:

session :session_expires => 3.years.from_now

in my application_controller.rb, but now every time i close the browser (chrome) the session expires. I read from somewhere that session_expires would have changed to expire_after, but

session :expire_after => 3.years.from_now

didn't do any good eihter.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '09 at 12:18

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Ok, don't know why "session :expire_after => ..." didn't work, but i got it working with this:

ActionController::Base.session_options[:expire_after] = 3.years

answered Sep 04 '09 at 12:18

Sweet worked for me (not it's no longer browser session). Either setting it explicitly there or within the ActionController::Base.session = {} block both worked (within config/initializers/session_store.rb – rogerdpack Jul 27 '11 at 13:53

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '10 at 09:55

Place this into your ApplicationController and just as your session expires a new one will be generated.

  before_filter :change_session_expiration_time

  def change_session_expiration_time    
      request.session_options[:expire_after] = 1.minute
  end

Session management in Rails (2.3)

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