Cleaning Up Rails Sessions, Revisited

In an earlier post, we detailed a method for removing stale Rails session files. In more recent version of Rails, there is a Rake task built in for this administration task.

rake tmp:sessions:clear # Clears all files in tmp/sessions

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This entry was posted on Saturday, September 16th, 2006 at 11:15 am by Rich Rodriguez and is filed under rails, ruby. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Cleaning Up Rails Sessions, Revisited”

  1. Brian McQuay Says:
    August 16th, 2007 at 5:37 pm

    Thanks for the tip. I wonder why these aren’t cleaned up automatically. I’m just going to setup a cron job to run this command to prevent things from getting out of hand.

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