reset_sessions how to?

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Hi,

    I am maintaining sessions for storing user informations.     When i logout i clear the session using reset_session.

    Will the session be available if i kill the rails server?

    If yes, Why does this happen and how can i overcome this by resetting the session?

    Please give me some suggestions, since i am stuck with this for a long time

Regards, Vimal Das

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Hi,

I am maintaining sessions for storing user informations\.
When i logout i clear the session using reset\_session\.

Will the session be available if i kill the rails server?

If yes, Why does this happen and how can i overcome this by

resetting the session?

Well reset_session should kill the session no matter what happens afterwards.

Other than that, the session store persists across restarts. It pretty much depends on what your session store is. If it is one of the server side ones ( activerecord_store, MemcacheStore etc...) then you can clear it out. If it is the cookie store (the default) then the session is stored on the user's computer, so you can't delete it. You can invalidate it by changing your session's secret (make sure you deal with the exception that gets raised in those cases if you don't want to confuse your users). Pretty much a manual process which ever store you use.

Fred