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shailesh
shailesh

Reputation: 875

Does Rails provide default session time-out duration? If yes, where is it specified?

I already know how to set expiry time duration in rails app, which has been documented very well on web. But what I want to know is what is the default time duration for session expiry in rails and if there is one, where to find it?

Upvotes: 21

Views: 23562

Answers (3)

Andrey
Andrey

Reputation: 367

By definition, sessions will expire after the browser is closed, they do not have timeout. If you open Chrome dev tools and look at the expiration date, it will say "Session" there instead of the date/time.

Upvotes: 4

sargas
sargas

Reputation: 6180

Rails doesn't have a default expiration time. The method definition for session_store seems to have only one default:

On line 32 @session_store = :cookie_store

By default the other configurations are non existent. Therefore, :expire_after is not set and Rails' sessions don't have expiration time unless you set a value for it.

Upvotes: 19

user2319761
user2319761

Reputation: 275

You can configure the application's session information in the initializer file 

config/initializers/session_store.rb

For setting 30 minutes try the below code :

 YourApp::Application.config.session_store :cookie_store, 
    :key => '_my_session', 
    :expire_after => 30.minutes

Upvotes: 17

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