Comments on: Why you need to manage Ruby sessions

By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:12:30 +0000

Evan: Oh, believe me, I know. It seems that you just did not get the joke. But don't worry, you are not alone. Apparently I must work more on my comedy skills .)

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:25:35 +0000

rake tmp:sessions:clear

By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:56:52 +0000

Yeah, that’s what I’ve figured out judging by the awards alone. I really can’t wait to see it!

By: trench

trench — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:01:03 +0000

Paul, noticed you watched Flags of our Fathers. Just to let you know, Letters from IWO JIMA was awesome.

By: Dayne

Dayne — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:50:22 +0000

Or you can use the handy find command (helpful if you put in a cronjob)
# find sessions older than a week and toast them
find tmp/sessions -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;
# to see what it would delete w/o deleting it:
find tmp/sessions -atime +7 -exec echo {} \;

turn that into a script and put into your crontab to run nightly at 3am
0 3 * * * /home/user/rails/cleanup_sessions.sh

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:35:02 +0000

Ah, ok. Got it.

By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:56:41 +0000

Yea, I know all that (apart from the rm -f idea). This post was supposed to be a joke .)

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:39 +0000

Also, in worst case, you can always set up a cronjob to purge that directory every day/week/month (whichever seems appropriate).

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:59:43 +0000

Are Ruby sessions similar to PHP sessions? And if yes, doesn’t rails have a mechanism for purging old and expired sessions?

Did you try:

rm -f tmp/sessions mkdir tmp/sessions

This way you avoid the argument expansion thing, I think. To tell you the truth I actually never had that issue in bash.