Working With Rails

Sliding Session Timeout

By default, sessions in Rails expire at a fixed time from the moment they are created. This plugin lets you configure your sessions to expire in a sliding window, a fixed time from the last page view.

Usage: # the macro for use in controllers sliding_session_timeout seconds [, upon_expiry_function]

'seconds' is the time in seconds for a session to live
'upon_expiry_function' is an optional method to call when a session dies

- ActionController::Base.reset_session will be called upon session expiry.
- If an expiry_function was provided, the call to reset_session will happen
    after the call to the expiry_function to preserve session data for the 
    expiry_function.

Examples: # in app/controllers/application.rb

1. expire in thirty minutes sliding_session_timeout 60 * 30

1. or use Rails’ number helpers sliding_session_timeout 30.minutes

1. expire in two hours and call the ‘logout’ method upon expiry sliding_session_timeout 2.hours, :logout

def logout
  # do stuff here for logout
end

NOTE: This description has been extracted from the Plugin README and so the formatting may need updating to make browser friendly