Rails Caches_Page being misplaced due to namespacing

Question

I have a controller within a namespace and would like to cache it's Index. I am successfully caching pages that are not under a namespace, and successfully caching fragments as well.

When I visit http//.../house/kitchen it successfully creates /public/house/kitchen.html. However it never finds it, so it is always writing over the cached file.

I haven't been able to find an option with cache_page or caches_page to help me direct the cached file in the correct location.

Another frustrating thing is that http//.../house/kitchen/table successfully reads and creates /public/houose/kitchen/table/new.html.

I would greatly appreciate any direction!

Edit: adding details
Ruby : 1.8.7
Rails: 2.3.5
Server: Mongrel

Edit: I've placed kitchen.html in every possible location in my public folder, this controller seems just to refuse reading it.

Answer 1

My suggestion is to not use namespaces, anything you want to do in regards to urls can be done with routing. Is there a reason why you have to use namespaced controllers?

Answer 2

I am not sure if it is relevant but I found there was an issue with goldspike web server a while ago.
So maybe your web server also is missing something (BTW, what a web server are you using)?

Answer 3

I think I'm having the same issue. If so, I know the cause, but haven't yet found a solution.

The web server finds the directory http://…/house/kitchen/ before it finds the file http://…/house/kitchen.html. This directory doesn't contain an index.html, so it passes the route to Rails which kindly generates a new file.

So, you could:

1. Place your cached file at http://…/house/kitchen/index.html

2. Tell your web server to look for *.html files before it looks for */ directories.