I’ve pretty much tried everything, but it seems impossible to use
expire_fragment from models? I know you’re not supposed to and it’s
non-MVC, but surely there much be some way to do it.
I created a module in /lib/cache_helper.rb with all my expire helpers,
within each are just a bunch of expire_fragment calls. I have all my
cache sweepers setup under /app/sweepers and have an “include
CacheHelper” in my application controller so expiring cache within the
app when called via controllers works fine.
Then things is I have some external daemons and especially some
recurring cron tasks which call a rake task that calls a certain
method. This method does some processing and inputs entries into the
model, after which I need to expire cache. What’s the best way to do
this as I can’t specify “cache_sweeper” within the model.
Straight up observers seem to be the best solution but then it
complains about expire_fragment being undefined etc etc, I’ve even
tried including the ActionController caching classes into the observer
but that didn’t work. I’d love some ideas of how to create a solution
for this. Thanks.
Steven Cummings wrote:
Had this problem too and wrote up the solution the other night on my
blog.
http://stevencummings.name/2010/09/07/expire_fragment-with-rake-and-as-a-model-only-observer
Interesting solution…
Related to model-based cache expiration, in one large-ish Rails project,
the sidebar for a ‘show’ of an entity contains a view of all the related
entities in the application. We were getting hammered on both db access
and rendering time, so I implemented fragment caching in a multi-tiered
approach, and left it to the models to expire caches of their data – a
fine line to walk, but that worked the best for us.
We used a Rails.cache.delete() call from within the model to handle the
fragment expiration, with the new/edited/deleted model selecting the
appropriate caches to expire according to its related models.
Marston A. wrote:
I’ve pretty much tried everything, but it seems impossible to use
expire_fragment from models? I know you’re not supposed to and it’s
non-MVC, but surely there much be some way to do it.
I created a module in /lib/cache_helper.rb with all my expire helpers,
within each are just a bunch of expire_fragment calls. I have all my
cache sweepers setup under /app/sweepers and have an “include
CacheHelper” in my application controller so expiring cache within the
app when called via controllers works fine.
Then things is I have some external daemons and especially some
recurring cron tasks which call a rake task that calls a certain
method. This method does some processing and inputs entries into the
model, after which I need to expire cache. What’s the best way to do
this as I can’t specify “cache_sweeper” within the model.
Straight up observers seem to be the best solution but then it
complains about expire_fragment being undefined etc etc, I’ve even
tried including the ActionController caching classes into the observer
but that didn’t work. I’d love some ideas of how to create a solution
for this. Thanks.
Had this problem too and wrote up the solution the other night on my
blog.
http://stevencummings.name/2010/09/07/expire_fragment-with-rake-and-as-a-model-only-observer