Action Dispatch Session
CookieStore
This cookie-based session store is the Rails
default. It is dramatically faster than the alternatives.
Sessions typically contain at most a user ID and flash message; both fit within the 4096 bytes cookie size limit. A CookieOverflow
exception is raised if you attempt to store more than 4096 bytes of data.
The cookie jar used for storage is automatically configured to be the best possible option given your application’s configuration.
Your cookies will be encrypted using your application’s secret_key_base
. This goes a step further than signed cookies in that encrypted cookies cannot be altered or read by users. This is the default starting in Rails
4.
Configure your session store in an initializer:
Rails.application.config.session_store :cookie_store, key: '_your_app_session'
In the development and test environments your application’s secret_key_base
is generated by Rails
and stored in a temporary file in tmp/local_secret.txt
. In all other environments, it is stored encrypted in the config/credentials.yml.enc
file.
If your application was not updated to Rails
5.2 defaults, the secret_key_base
will be found in the old config/secrets.yml
file.
Note that changing your secret_key_base
will invalidate all existing session. Additionally, you should take care to make sure you are not relying on the ability to decode signed cookies generated by your app in external applications or JavaScript before changing it.
Because CookieStore
extends Rack::Session::Abstract::Persisted
, many of the options described there can be used to customize the session cookie that is generated. For example:
Rails.application.config.session_store :cookie_store, expire_after: 14.days
would set the session cookie to expire automatically 14 days after creation. Other useful options include :key
, :secure
, :httponly
, and :same_site
.
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Class Public methods
new(app, options = {}) Link
Instance Public methods
delete_session(req, session_id, options) Link
# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/session/cookie_store.rb, line 70 def delete_session(req, session_id, options) new_sid = generate_sid unless options[:drop] # Reset hash and Assign the new session id req.set_header("action_dispatch.request.unsigned_session_cookie", new_sid ? { "session_id" => new_sid.public_id } : {}) new_sid end