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My Rails-app has a sign in box with a "remember me" checkbox. Users who check that box should remain logged in even after closing their browser. I'm keeping track of whether users are logged in by storing their id in the user's session. But sessions are implemented in Rails as session cookies, which are not persistent. I can make them persistent: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base before_filter :update_session_expiration_date private def update_session_expiration_date options = ActionController::Base.session_options unless options[:session_expires] options[:session_expires] = 1.year.from_now end end end But that seems like a hack, which is surprising for such common functionality. Is there any better way? Edit Gareth's answer is pretty good, but I would still like an answer from someone familiar with Rails 2 (because of it's unique CookieSessionStore ).
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