# Easy question: Where do I put sweepers?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-question-where-do-i-put-sweepers/96276>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 27, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-question-where-do-i-put-sweepers/96276 "2006-06-27T21:57:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![squeegy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@squeegy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/squeegy)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-question-where-do-i-put-sweepers/96276/1 "2006-06-27T21:57:22Z")

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Trying to implement some sweepers to clean up my caching, but where do I  
put them?

“ruby script/generate sweeeper” does nothing.

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**Author:** ![squeegy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@squeegy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/squeegy)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-question-where-do-i-put-sweepers/96276/2 "2006-06-27T22:47:37Z")

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Alex W. wrote:

> “ruby script/generate sweeeper” does nothing.

Even if you spell ‘sweeper’ correctly? 😉

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**Author:** ![squeegy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@squeegy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/squeegy)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-question-where-do-i-put-sweepers/96276/3 "2006-06-27T23:18:29Z")

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Bill W. wrote:

> Alex W. wrote:
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> > “ruby script/generate sweeeper” does nothing.
> 
> Even if you spell ‘sweeper’ correctly? 😉

Even so 🙂

> ruby script/generate sweeper  
> Couldn’t find ‘sweeper’ generator

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**Author:** ![squeegy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@squeegy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/squeegy)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-question-where-do-i-put-sweepers/96276/4 "2006-06-28T03:34:49Z")

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On 6/27/06, Alex W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Trying to implement some sweepers to clean up my caching, but where do I  
> put them?
> 
> “ruby script/generate sweeeper” does nothing.

When I was trying to figure out sweepers, which I couldn’t find any  
substantial documentation for at all, I dropped them in them in the  
same folder as my models. I don’t know if that’s right, but it seems  
to work…

Sincerely,

Tom L.  
[http://AllTom.com/](http://AllTom.com/)  
[http://GadgetLife.org/](http://GadgetLife.org/)