Question

I’m using Clearance for authentication in my Rails app. Does anyone know of a way to configure a session timeout? It’s been logging me out within 5 minutes of when I login and I can’t seem to locate anything that specifies how to set the timeout.

Answer 1

When you installed Clearance, I think it should have added a config/initializers/clearance.rb file. You can configure the session timeout in there through the use of the cookie_expiration config. From their docs, it can look like this:

@example
  Clearance.configure do |config|
    config.mailer_sender     = '[e-mail]'
    config.cookie_expiration = lambda { 2.weeks.from_now.utc }
    config.password_strategy = MyPasswordStrategy
    config.user_model        = MyNamespace::MyUser
  end

So, just give cookie expiration a lambda that returns a Time object that occurs sometime in the future.