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Ruby

Posted by Tony McKeown
Tony McKeown
Courses Plus Student 14,300 Points

Showing a user is online now

I'm currently building a profile page for an app that I'm working on but I'm not sure of the best way to show if a user is currently online, or if they're not online how long ago it has been since they were last active.

Any tips?

1 Answer

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

You would have to have a way for the users session timestamp to be stored in a database. For example, every time they click a link on your site, it updates the timestamp with the current time. Then if, after 5 minutes of inactivity, they could be considered offline. Devise stores the last login timestamp, so you already have access to that if you want to say when their last login was.