Rails - Mar 2006 - Please: Desperately Seeking Session expiration (DRbStore)

Hello,

this is killing me: i can''t find a way to let idle sessions expire
after a
certain period of time. If they don''t expire, they will pile up until
there''s no
more memory available.

Please, can anybody give me a hint?

Basically, all I need is a hash or list with all the sessions in DRbStore.

Greetings

Michael Kastner

Hey,

Michael Kastner wrote:
> this is killing me: i can''t find a way to let idle sessions expire
after
> a certain period of time. If they don''t expire, they will pile up
until
> there''s no more memory available.
> 
> Please, can anybody give me a hint?
> 
> Basically, all I need is a hash or list with all the sessions in DRbStore.
http://rafb.net/paste/results/QAGuP636.html

This is a quick hack based on the DRb-Server that is shipping with 
Rails. It keeps track of sessions access times and the clear_sessions 
method removes idle session. You have to find a place where to call this 
method from of course, maybe you could call it on every n-th session 
access or you could call it externally at given intervals.

How do you other people on the list handle session expiration when using 
memcached or DRb as session storage?

Michael