Manage Rails session with Redis


This article shows how to manage Rails session with Redis.

🚕 Installation

Add the following to your Gemfile:

gem 'redis-rails'

🐹 Configuration

Set the following to config/initializers/session_store.rb:

MyApplication::Application.config.session_store :redis_store,
  servers: ["redis://localhost:6379/0/session"],
  expire_after: 90.minutes,
  key: "_#{Rails.application.class.parent_name.downcase}_session",
  threadsafe: false

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