delete rails sessions on linux

By default Rails creates session files under {RAILS_ROOT}/tmp/session
Use this script to remove sessions more than a day old. You may add it to cron to automate.

find . -name “ruby_sess*” -ctime +1 -exec rm -f \{} \;

One Response to “delete rails sessions on linux”

  1. Todd Says:

    I got a missing argument error message with the find command above.

    This worked for me:

    find . -name “ruby_sess*” -ctime +1 -exec rm -f {} \;

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