request.session_options broken?

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm implementing simple "remember me" functionality for logging in users with Rails 2.3.4. I'm trying to set the session expiration date for some time in the future. After googling around a bit I found this post which seems to address my problem:

http://squarewheel.pl/posts/3

My modifications to request.session_options are being ignored. According to this discussion ( http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/f2e945a4b1ce3cf2/b2ba91b16a10fd0d?#b2ba91b16a10fd0d ) using request.session_options to modify your session cookie is currently broken. Is that correct?

Thanks! James

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I am also looking for a solution to this problem. It took me long enough to figure out how to set the cookie domain going from Rails 2.2.2 to 2.3.4, now my cookies appear to expire daily instead of never :frowning:

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If you want all of the session info for your app to persist you can set the expiration in config/initializers/session_store.rb

ActionController::Base.session = {   :key => '_blog_session',   :domain => '.example.com',   :expire_after => 1.week # put whetever expiration you want here }

My issue is that I only want to set the expiration to something longer when the user explicitly asks me to.