Question

How do I set up a session value that expires 1.hours from now in Rails?

Cookies have an option like:

cookies[:thing] = {:value => {:normal => "session stuff"}, :expires => 2.hours.from_now}

Are there any options for sessions too?

Answer 1

please try this

session[:expires_at] = 60.minutes.from_now

you can also try

session[:expires_at] = Time.now + 60.minutes
session[:expires_at] = Time.now + 1.hour
session[:expires_at] = Time.now + 3600 #1 hour in seconds

All these are working in my application. Please do not forget to consider time zone.