Email templates not updating

Rails
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I have a strange problem: I am using ActionMailer via ar_mailer to mail
out some multi-part email with templates and it’s working just fine.
But, if I make a change to the templates, new email generated uses the
old template. I’ve looked at all the moving parts and they seem to be in
order—even tried restarting the httpd process thinking passenger wasn’t
listening to the touch /tmp/restart.txt deal.

Does someone know if there’s some weird caching thing with mail
templates? And, how to clear that cache out? Any clues on how to go
about troubleshooting this further? TIA for any help.

I’m using Rails 2.2.3, production environment on a RHEL machine, apache

  • passenger.
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Boy, it sure helps to write (type) out your problem to think about it in
a new way. Something about sending it down to your fingers, then back up
to your brain sure helps.

After posting, I realized that I also had a custom daemon what was
watching for emails ready to be sent at a certain time. That daemon was
started during version < current of my email template, and it was cached
in that running process. Good to know, better to remember.

Restarting that daemon picked up the current version of the template and
is happily sending emails. Nice as ice.