Question

How to set up in the rails application that if any user is idle for 30 minutes or a specific period of time he should be automatically get logged out.
Can any one give any solution . i am using devise for authentication purpose. Any help is appreciated .

Answer 1

You should use Timeoutable model trait.

Timeoutable takes care of veryfing whether a user session has already expired or not. When a session expires after the configured time, the user will be asked for credentials again, it means, he/she will be redirected to the sign in page.

Options

Timeoutable adds the following options to devise_for:

• +timeout_in+: the interval to timeout the user session without activity.

In your model you need

devise :timeoutable
# along with :database_authenticatable, :registerable and other things.

Also, take a look at config/initializers/devise.rb, you can configure timeout value there.