Here's any example of a rake task that cleans out sessions that are some many weeks old:
http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/topfunky_power_tools/tasks/database.rake You can call the rake task in a cron job, but clearing them out every five minutes seems a little extreme. I wondering if you are after something to timeout the session if it hasn't been modified for the last five minutes. Then you are after something like SessionTimeout: http://github.com/lukeredpath/session-timeout/tree/master HTH, Nicholas On Jun 25, 6:28 pm, gaoxh gaoxh04 <gaox...@gmail.com> wrote: > sorry for confusion. for databased session > > 2009/6/25 Nicholas Henry <nicholas.he...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > yes to which one? > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:08 PM, gaoxh gaoxh04<gaox...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > yes.. > > > > 2009/6/25, Nicholas Henry <nicholas.he...@gmail.com>: > > > >> Do you mean how to timeout a session, or clean up old sessions in the > > >> database (when using table-based session, opposed to cookie-based > > >> sessions)? > > > >> Cheers, > > >> Nicholas > > > >> On Jun 24, 11:22 pm, Xiahong Gao <gaox...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > Hi everyone, > > > >> > I am a newb. Can anyone tell me how to do session cleanup? I want to > > >> > cleanup those sessions which haven't been modified in recent 5 > > >> > minutes. How to make it a background process in my rails application? > > > >> > thanks in advance, > > > >> > xiahong >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
