This provides warning message before auto session timeout in Rails application, if you don't looking for warning message before session timeout please check source gem https://github.com/pelargir/auto-session-timeout
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'auto-session-timeout-warning'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install auto-session-timeout-warning
Add jquery and jquery-ui on your application.js file, set the current_user helper method in application controller if its not yet defined
Add before_timedout_action in application controller
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
#Add protected before_timedout action
before_timedout_action
end
If you want to override the before_timedout, just add protected before_timedout action and add your custom implementation here
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_timedout_action
protected
#override before_timedout
def before_timedout
#your custom code here
end
end
and follow all steps as for https://github.com/pelargir/auto-session-timeout.
Check below configuration for warning message
<html>
<head>...</head>
<body>
<% if current_user %>
<%= auto_session_timeout_js timeout: 60, frequency: 60, start: 60, warning: 20 %>
<% end %>
...
</body>
</html>
frequency refers to how frequently browser interactive with server to find the session details,
timeout refers to auto session time out, if you set auto_session_timeout: 2.minutes on application_controller, you should set 120 seconds here,
start describes the starting time of server interaction, if it is 60, first server interaction will start after 60 seconds,
warning describes the starting time of warning message before session timed out, if is 20, dialog warning message will popup before 20 seconds of timeout.
Default values here:
timeout: 60, frequecy: 60, start: 60, warning: 20
- setting timeout in controller vs. user
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request
- Source Repository: http://github.com/pelargir/auto-session-timeout/