Devise - Make a request without resetting the countdown until a user is logged out due to inactivity

Question

I\'m working on a RoR app with Devise. I want to let clients send a request to the server to see how much time is left until the user on the client is automatically logged o

Answer 1

The two leading answers of prepending a request.env["devise.skip_trackable"] = true action did not work for me initially.

It seems that this only works if you are using the "classic" authenticate_user! before action, and not when using authenticated routes. If you are using authenticated routes in your config/routes.rb, such as:

authenticate :user do
  resources :some_resources
end

Prepending the action does not seem to affect the Devise chain in time, so you should comment out the authenticate block out, use an authenticate_user! before action instead in your app/controllers/application_controller.rb, and add a prepend action that sets skip_trackable to true in a specific controller.