# Feature Request **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [November 9, 2007, 7:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687 "2007-11-09T07:06:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 7:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/1 "2007-11-09T07:06:24Z")
I have 1 seemingly minor feature requests. - There is a “Clear Cache” button on the “Pages” tab. Is it at all possible to duplicate that button the “Snippets” and “Layout” tabs also? Very often when one is experimenting with a new snippet or layout, there’s a need to clear cache since the changes do not propagate through automatically. It’s very distracting to save changes, go to the pages tab, clear cache and then do a reload. In fact, I have 2 admin windows open with one on Pages just to clear cache. I wonder if others would also find this useful. Thanks, Mohit. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 7:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/2 "2007-11-09T07:39:43Z")
> would also find this useful. > Editing a layout or snippet automatically clears the whole cache - > there’s no manual step needed. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/3 "2007-11-09T08:42:51Z")
Daniel S. wrote: > > would also find this useful. > > Editing a layout or snippet automatically clears the whole cache - there’s no manual step needed. Hi Daniel, I did not know that!! Thanks! However, I do seem to notice that when I change a snippet (radiant rev 575), it does not seem to expire the cache. I get the same page when I do a refresh - I even got the same page when I clicked on ‘expire page cache’ in that case. In fact, I had to change the page that I was looking at and save it. Then, the cache was expired. I wonder if someone else is noticing the same? Cheers, Mohit. 11/9/2007 | 3:41 PM. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/4 "2007-11-09T13:09:50Z")
> I usually have two domains for my radiants site, the [foo.com](http://foo.com) and > [dev.foo.com](http://dev.foo.com), in the case the domain starts with “dev.” no caching > is ever > done. That sounds like a good solution. Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to do this? Do both sites ([site.com](http://site.com) and [dev.site.com](http://dev.site.com)) run off the same database, or do you run site\_development on [dev.site.com](http://dev.site.com) and site\_production on [site.com](http://site.com)? Thanks, A ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/5 "2007-11-09T11:14:26Z")
±Le 09/11/07 15:41 +0800, Mohit S. a dit : | However, I do seem to notice that when I change a snippet (radiant rev | 575), it does not seem to expire the cache. I get the same page when I | do a refresh - I even got the same page when I clicked on ‘expire page | cache’ in that case. In fact, I had to change the page that I was | looking at and save it. Then, the cache was expired. Well, the cache is expired, but your browser got a expires header the last time it asked for the page. (Which is 5 minutes in the future by default.) If that time has not come, and you don’t force the reload in your browser, it won’t. I usually have two domains for my radiants site, the [foo.com](http://foo.com) and [dev.foo.com](http://dev.foo.com), in the case the domain starts with “dev.” no caching is ever done. Regards, ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/6 "2007-11-09T13:15:42Z")
±le 09.11.2007 12:08:47 +0000, Andrew N. a dit : | |\> I usually have two domains for my radiants site, the [foo.com](http://foo.com) and |\> [dev.foo.com](http://dev.foo.com), in the case the domain starts with “dev.” no caching |\> is ever |\> done. | | That sounds like a good solution. Is there a tutorial somewhere on | how to do this? | | Do both sites ([site.com](http://site.com) and [dev.site.com](http://dev.site.com)) run off the same database, | or do you run site\_development on [dev.site.com](http://dev.site.com) and site\_production on | [site.com](http://site.com)? They both go to the same mongrel cluster, they’re just two different apache virtualhost so that my going to dev.\* don’t bloat the log files. The development site with de development database is just a single mongrel running on another port. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 7:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/7 "2007-11-10T07:08:53Z")
Mathieu A. wrote: > it won’t. > > I usually have two domains for my radiants site, the [foo.com](http://foo.com) and > [dev.foo.com](http://dev.foo.com), in the case the domain starts with “dev.” no caching is ever > done. > > Regards, Hi! Thanks for the explanation - it does make sense. Unfortunately, the [dev.example.com](http://dev.example.com) won’t work for me cos Radiant is currently hosted on a sub-domain for me. For example, Radiant runs the site on [radiant.example.com](http://radiant.example.com) I wonder if I created [dev.example.com](http://dev.example.com) and pointed the dev to the public of the radiant directory, if it would work… That way, when Radiant looks at it, it sees dev as the subdomain. I guess I should try it when I get the time - thanks for the help guys! Cheers, Mohit. 11/10/2007 | 2:00 PM. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/8 "2007-11-10T10:38:04Z")
±Le 10/11/07 16:31 +0900, Mark G. a dit : | Mohit S. wrote: |\> Hi! Thanks for the explanation - it does make sense. Unfortunately, |\> the [dev.example.com](http://dev.example.com) won’t work for me cos Radiant is currently hosted on |\> a sub-domain for me. |\> | | I thought it was possible to specify the host name for the development | site in the Radiant config. Can anyone confirm? Absolutely, the dev.host config directive is for. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/9 "2007-11-10T08:31:51Z")
Mohit S. wrote: > Hi! Thanks for the explanation - it does make sense. Unfortunately, > the [dev.example.com](http://dev.example.com) won’t work for me cos Radiant is currently hosted on > a sub-domain for me. I thought it was possible to specify the host name for the development site in the Radiant config. Can anyone confirm? Cheers, Mark ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/10 "2007-11-10T19:03:43Z")
Mathieu A. wrote: > Absolutely, the dev.host config directive is for. Hi Everyone, Sorry to be a bother, but I’ve just spent 20 minutes looking through the files in {RADIANT\_APP}/config trying to find the setting. I think I’m missing something. If someone is using it, could you please let me know which file it goes into and what it looks like there. Sorry again & thanks, Mohit. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/11 "2007-11-10T20:21:09Z")
Mohit, Add these lines to the bottom of your config/environment.rb: require ‘radiant/config’ Radiant::Config[‘dev.host’] = “[somehostname.com](http://somehostname.com)” Sean ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/12 "2007-11-10T16:13:52Z")
Mathieu A. wrote: > Absolutely, the dev.host config directive is for. Fantastic! Thanks guys, Mohit. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feature-request/119687/13 "2007-11-10T20:25:50Z")
Sean C. wrote: > Mohit, > > Add these lines to the bottom of your config/environment.rb: > > require ‘radiant/config’ > Radiant::Config[‘dev.host’] = “[somehostname.com](http://somehostname.com)” > > Sean Thanks a lot, Sean! Cheers, Mohit. 11/11/2007 | 3:24 AM.