Rails: Sending cached gzip content directly to client using caches_action

Question

I am using caches_action to cache one of the action's response

I want to save in the cache compression response and then send it as it is if browser supports that compression otherwise decompress it and then send it.

Some characteristics of my content: 1. It rarely changes 2. My server gets requests from 90% gzip enabled browsers

Do you see any issue with this approach?

If you it is a right approach then is there a easy way to achieve the same?

Answer 1

Compression should be handled by Apache or the webserver. Assuming the client supports compression, the webserver will load your static file and serve a compressed response.

I suggest you to have a look at your webserver configuration. Here's an example using Apache.