Sessions in Rails

**ghostcop** · August 29th, 2005, 2:30 AM

This code needs to be run, either every hour or five hours or 12 hours or day, to clear out old Rails sessions.

Code:

find /tmp/ -name "ruby_sess*" -cmin +60 -exec rm \{} \;

The default session mechanism in Rails creates a temporary file in /tmp/ called ruby_sess.* with no expiration. While you can set an expiration time for sessions in your Rails app, some of the sessions still might hang around in /tmp/ forever, eventually bogging things down.

Since we should probably assume that a lot of our users aren't going to know how to set a session expiration right when they start out, the admins might want to run a cron job which will clear out old sessions periodically. ls /tmp any time to see what I mean. Yeah, it's all from me, but still! =)

**Paul** · August 29th, 2005, 2:33 AM

They are cleaned automatically already

Just maybe a too long a expiration

**ghostcop** · August 29th, 2005, 2:50 AM

Great! Honestly, I didn't really check the expiration time very hard. I kinda assumed it wasn't going on, so my bad. Thanks again for the great new plan.

**ghostcop** · August 30th, 2005, 2:02 AM

Hey, I have a few RubyGem requests:

- RedCloth
- syntax
- rubyzip

**Paul** · August 30th, 2005, 2:04 PM

You may put any requests into /home/$username/gemrequest. This file will be read when I run my update script every day and I will select Accept or Deny, If Isee it coming from you I shall accept

Just put them in the file seperate by newline

**Paul** · August 30th, 2005, 2:04 PM

Forgot to mention I Installed them 3 for you

**ghostcop** · August 31st, 2005, 9:33 PM

Thanks so much, you're too good to me =)

**ghostcop** · September 18th, 2005, 4:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PaulTech

You may put any requests into /home/$username/gemrequest. This file will be read when I run my update script every day and I will select Accept or Deny, If Isee it coming from you I shall accept

Just put them in the file seperate by newline

How often do you check gemrequest? And how do I know that it's been checked, but my gem request was rejected?

**Paul** · September 18th, 2005, 4:09 PM

They run Sunday morning, Actually just ran not too long ago and I only see One request that was accepted as a valid gem.

"Rubilicious-0.1.5"

August 29th, 2005, 2:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
ghostcop Surpass Fan On a golden path... Joined in Nov 2004 Lives in San Francisco 364 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 3 times	Sessions in Rails This code needs to be run, either every hour or five hours or 12 hours or day, to clear out old Rails sessions. Code: find /tmp/ -name "ruby_sess" -cmin +60 -exec rm \{} \; The default session mechanism in Rails creates a temporary file in /tmp/ called ruby_sess. with no expiration. While you can set an expiration time for sessions in your Rails app, some of the sessions still might hang around in /tmp/ forever, eventually bogging things down. Since we should probably assume that a lot of our users aren't going to know how to set a session expiration right when they start out, the admins might want to run a cron job which will clear out old sessions periodically. ls /tmp any time to see what I mean. Yeah, it's all from me, but still! =) __________________ Err the Blog ones zeros majors and minors - a tumblelog

August 29th, 2005, 2:50 AM	#3 (permalink)
ghostcop Surpass Fan On a golden path... Joined in Nov 2004 Lives in San Francisco 364 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 3 times	Great! Honestly, I didn't really check the expiration time very hard. I kinda assumed it wasn't going on, so my bad. Thanks again for the great new plan. __________________ Err the Blog ones zeros majors and minors - a tumblelog

August 30th, 2005, 2:02 AM	#4 (permalink)
ghostcop Surpass Fan On a golden path... Joined in Nov 2004 Lives in San Francisco 364 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 3 times	Hey, I have a few RubyGem requests: - RedCloth - syntax - rubyzip __________________ Err the Blog ones zeros majors and minors - a tumblelog

August 31st, 2005, 9:33 PM	#7 (permalink)
ghostcop Surpass Fan On a golden path... Joined in Nov 2004 Lives in San Francisco 364 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 3 times	Thanks so much, you're too good to me =) __________________ Err the Blog ones zeros majors and minors - a tumblelog

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August 29th, 2005, 2:33 AM	#2 (permalink)
Paul System Administrator On a golden path... Joined in Jul 2004 356 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 73 times	They are cleaned automatically already Just maybe a too long a expiration

August 30th, 2005, 2:04 PM	#5 (permalink)
Paul System Administrator On a golden path... Joined in Jul 2004 356 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 73 times	You may put any requests into /home/$username/gemrequest. This file will be read when I run my update script every day and I will select Accept or Deny, If Isee it coming from you I shall accept Just put them in the file seperate by newline

August 30th, 2005, 2:04 PM	#6 (permalink)
Paul System Administrator On a golden path... Joined in Jul 2004 356 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 73 times	Forgot to mention I Installed them 3 for you

September 18th, 2005, 4:09 PM	#9 (permalink)
Paul System Administrator On a golden path... Joined in Jul 2004 356 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 73 times	They run Sunday morning, Actually just ran not too long ago and I only see One request that was accepted as a valid gem. "Rubilicious-0.1.5"

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