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Resetting user sessions

First check what type of session store your application is setup for

This config usually lives here: config/initializers/session_store.rb

ApplicationName::Application.config.session_store :cookie_store, key: '_application_name_session'

Cookie based sessions:

The only control you over other peoples cookies is to invalidate them by changing the applications secret, located in config/initializers/secret_token.rb

run rake secret to generate a new token, commit the change and deploy.

Make sure that your webserver/s are restarted after deploy.

File store based sessions:

rake tmp:sessions:clear

DB store based sessions:

rake db:sessions:clear
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