Implementation of “Remember me” in a Rails application

Question

My Rails-app has a sign in box with a \"remember me\" checkbox. Users who check that box should remain logged in even after closing their browser. I\'m keeping track of whet

Answer 1

This worked like a charm for me:

http://squarewheel.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/session-cookie-expiration-time-in-rails/

Now my CookieStore sessions expire after two weeks, whereby the user must submit their login credentials again in order to be persistently logged-in for another two weeks.

Bascially, it's as simple as:

1. including one file in vendor/plugins directory
2. set session expiry value in application controller using just one line