can you customize this per user?

[kevinchugh]

we want orgs to be able to set their own timeout, can this be done? per user or per some other record value?

[pelargir]

I'm not sure I understand the question. The plugin already works per user. The timeout is managed in the session and each user who logs into the Rails app gets their own unique session.

[kevinchugh]

thanks for responding. the read me implies there is a global timeout. i want to know if i can have these 10 users timeout after 10 minutes, but those 20 users timeout after 2 hours.

[kevinchugh]

there's a weird github bug that closes issues, i didn't close this, just fyi

[pelargir]

Correct, the timeout itself applies globally and is not configurable per user. I'm happy to accept pull request, though, if you would like to make this modification yourself.

[kevinchugh]

great, thanks

[gsar]

@pelargir i haven't tried it, but from reading the code it appears that you can leave the global timeout unspecified and set the user specific value in the auto_timeout method on the user mdoel. can you confirm this will remain a supported way of doing per-user timeouts?

/cc @kevinchugh

[pelargir]

It looks like that would work, yes. I have no plans to change it.

[pelargir]

@kevinchugh per @gsar you can achieve what you want by adding an #auto_timeout method to your user model and returning a timeout (in seconds) from there.

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  auto_session_timeout
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  def auto_timeout
    15.minutes
  end
end

Please reopen this issue if that does not work for you.

I've updated the README with these instructions. Thank you both.