Set start date and expiration date for Rails cookies

Question

How do I set a Rails cookie to start and/or expire at a certain date?

Answer 1

your question might be related to this question: How to I dynamically set the expiry time for a cookie-based session in Rails

one of the comments points to Deprecating SlideSessions:

"..If you need to set expiration period for sessions through all controllers in your application, simply add the following option to your config/intializers/session_store.rb file:

:expire_after => 60.minutes

If you need to set different expiration time in different controllers or actions, use the following code in action or some before_filter:

request.session_options = request.session_options.dup
request.session_options[:expire_after]= 5.minutes
request.session_options.freeze

Duplication of the hash is needed only because it is already frozen at that point, even though modification of at least :expire_after is possible and works flawlessly..."

I hope that helps. :)