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Automatically erase Ruby on Rails session files (See related posts)

Add to your cron:

1 */4 * * *     find /tmp/ -name "ruby_sess*" -cmin +600 -exec rm \{} \;


Deletes sessions over ten hours old every four hours. Otherwise your /tmp will end up overflowing. This only applies you use the file store method of session storage with Rails.
to rails rubyonrails sessions crontab cron by peter on Fri Sep 16 18:53:51 -0400 2005

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zaphnod posts on Jul 27, 2006 at 07:11
If you're running on a shared hosting machine (ie there are multiple users all sharing /tmp), you can add "-user <your username>" to the above to restrict your deletion to only your own files. Shouldn't be a problem if the host is configured correctly, but it never hurts!

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