I've been catching up with the Scaling Rails screencasts. In episode 11 which covers advanced HTTP caching (using reverse proxy caches such as Varnish and Squid etc.), they recommend only considering using a reverse proxy cache once you've already exhausted the possibilities of page, action and fragment caching within your Rails applicat...
In a project I'm working on, I'm requesting data from an external API in my controller, which is then displayed in the view. I've recently begun running into exceptions being thrown due to rate limits, which are caused from excessive calls to the API. To fix this, I'm assuming that I need to implement some sort of caching system. I've be...
I'm pretty sure I can page cache the vast majority of my site but the one thing preventing me from doing so is that my flash messages will not show, or they'll show at the wrong time. One thing I'm considering is writing the flash message to a cookie, reading it and displaying it via javascript and clearing the cookie once the message h...
I'd love to use page caching on a Rails site I run. The information on each page is mostly constant, but the queries that need to be run to collect the information are complicated and can be slow in some cases.The only obstacle to using page caching is that the administrative interface is built into the main site so that admin operations...
Is it possible to turn on page caching for a functional test? The following didn't work: class ArticlesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase def setup ActionController::Base.public_class_method :page_cache_path ActionController::Base.perform_caching = true end end thanks in advance Deb ...
Hi, I want to use rails page caching to speed up a application which encounters heavy load. But I also need to count the hits/views on the objects presented. So I have the model "Article" with a unique hit counter method (by IP) which is called every time the user hits the show action. That doesn't work with caching, so I'm wondering ab...
I have a page with the following caching defined: <%@ OutputCache Duration="60" VaryByParam="None" %> I have a user control inside that page that i don't want cached. How can I turn it off just for that control? ...
The new rails routes are great in many aspects, but I am looking for the best way to achieve page caching with pages and formats like I had in rails 2.x and am coming up short I have many possible desired routes of the basic formulas: /(bazes/<baz id>/)(foos/<foo id>/)bars/page/<page num>/<format> Example routes: /bars/page/1/xml /f...