How To: Add timeout_in value dynamically

How To: Add timeout in value dynamically

This feature was added in version 1.5.2 and is not available in older versions of Devise

To dynamically set the timeout for each user, you can define a method in the user model called timeout_in that returns the timeout value.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  devise (...), :timeoutable

  def timeout_in
    if user.admin? # should this not be 'self.admin?' ?
      1.year
    else
      2.days
    end
  end
end

timeout_in should return a integer with the number of seconds (the timedout? method that devise uses, call the ago method on what timeout returns). But of course, you can use Rails 10.seconds or 1.hour to improve readability.