Expire cache in rake issue

Rails
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Hi All,
I am trying to expire a fragment cache in rake. I know that the best
practice to expire the cache is in the Sweepers. But as I have to expire
the cache at the end of the month I was thinking on the lines of doing
it in a rake task.
I had tried this but it showed me an error while running the task

expire_fragment(:controller => :login, :action => :index, :something=>
“1”)

Well it gives me a “No method Error”

Wanted to know what is the best practice to clear the cache on a cron
job? Should a sweeper action be called or a rake task is prescribed?

If any one has done this would highly appreciate if he/she could provide
the code for calling a sweeper action from a cron or can someone point
out what I am missing in the rake file. Do I have to create an object
and then call the method if so then an object of what class?

Please pardon me for being such a newbie. Any help would be highly
appreciated.

Cheers,
Jazzy

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Any body knows how to get this done?

3

Hate to bring back an old topic but I just came across this in my
frantic search to find a solution to much the same problem. So here it
goes:

In you rake task call: ApplicationController.expire_page(…)

4

Silviu lucian Vacaroiu wrote:

Hate to bring back an old topic but I just came across this in my
frantic search to find a solution to much the same problem. So here it
goes:

In you rake task call: ApplicationController.expire_page(…)

of course, make sure your environment gets setup first:

task :expire_cache => :environment do
ApplicationController.expire_page(:controller => “welcome”)
end

5

no, sorry, scratch that

I was trying it in the console and though it was working there I realize
now it’s not the same thing. In the end I got away with using something
like:

task :expire_cache => :environment do
ActionController::Base::expire_page(’/’)
end

In my case, I wanted to delete ‘index.html’ (root page-cache)

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I struggled with this problem the other night and managed to come up
with solution that allowed me to to use the code from my Sweeper instead
of duplicating it in rake. I wrote a blog entry explaining what I did
along with code samples.

http://stevencummings.name/2010/09/07/expire_fragment-with-rake-and-as-a-model-only-observer

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jazzy jazzy wrote:

Hi All,
I am trying to expire a fragment cache in rake. I know that the best
practice to expire the cache is in the Sweepers. But as I have to expire
the cache at the end of the month I was thinking on the lines of doing
it in a rake task.
I had tried this but it showed me an error while running the task

You could look into Rails.cache.delete(path_and_fragment_name)