I am developing a site and using Heroku for my hosting. I am on the their dev plan which allows me to use their free database but only up to 10,000 rows. After not touching the site for two days I was shocked to see an email alert from Heroku saying that I had reached 7,400 rows in my db. After some research I realized search bots were creating sessions. Is there a way to stop this? I have tried the solution in this post but it does not seem to work:
How to disable Rails sessions for web crawlers?
I am using rails 3.2.2.
As seen in this question ( Setting session timeout in Rails 3), you can implement auto expiry of your session and delete the database rows when a session has expired. If you keep session expiry time low and keep dropping database rows, I guess you won’t hit your Heroku limit.