How to I dynamically set the expiry time for a cookie-based session in Rails

Question

I\'m currently using the ActiveRecord-based session store for my Rails app and I have a background process which clears out inactive sessions every 30 minutes.

I\'d like

Answer 1

You could try adding the following line to your environment.rb file:

session :session_key => 'my_session_key'
session :session_expires => 1.day.from_now

Alternatively, you can set the session options as follows:

ActionController::Base.session_options[:session_expires] = 1.day.from_now

I've not tested this thouroughly, so YMMV.