I am using the following for to peroidically call back to the control to see if a certain amount of time has passed:
in .rhtml <%= periodically_call_remote :url => { :action => 'session_expiry' }, :update => '' %>
in controller if !session[:expire].blank? @time_left = (session[:expire][:expires] - Time.now).to_i else @time_left = 0 end
if @time_left.to_i < 0 or @time_left == 0 flash[:notice] = "<b style = 'color: red;'>You have been logged out due to inactivity</b>" session[:user] = nil redirect_to :action => 'login' end
The idea being that if too much time has passed the user gets signed out and get kicked back to the login page. Everything work right, except the bit of code that check to see if an hour has passed since the users last action and then it is supposed to redirect_to a login form. The problem is that when it gets to that redirect_to it seems to skip right over it and not do anything, even worse, it allows the user to continue to be logged in. Has anyone used peroidically_call_remote before and has similar issues and how did you fix them? Thanks,
-S