# Is there anyway to make Rails NOT cache? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 17, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-make-rails-not-cache/93998 "2006-04-17T21:56:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phillip_Novess)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-make-rails-not-cache/93998/1 "2006-04-17T21:56:42Z")
Is there anyway to make Rails NOT cache? I’m getting caching in the browser and the server. I have to restart Lighttpd after every view change to see the results. Thanks, phill ---
**Author:** ![Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phillip_Novess)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-make-rails-not-cache/93998/2 "2006-04-17T22:00:18Z")
Phillip Novess wrote: > Is there anyway to make Rails NOT cache? I’m getting caching in the > browser and the server. > > I have to restart Lighttpd after every view change to see the results. > > Thanks, > phill Are you doing development at this point? If so, you really don’t want to be using lighttpd - good old webrick will do the trick. If script\server is running lighttpd and causing trouble, do “script\server webrick” instead. ---
**Author:** ![Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phillip_Novess)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-make-rails-not-cache/93998/3 "2006-04-17T22:12:38Z")
On Monday 17 Apr 2006 21:00, Bryan D. wrote: > Are you doing development at this point? If so, you really don’t want to > be using lighttpd - good old webrick will do the trick. I’m developing using Lighttpd and it’s great - no caching problem at all. Can’t say I ever noticed one? Surely it can’t be the default behaviour, otherwise why would support for it have been added if it was unusable because of caching issues? Sounds like the culprit might be something else (eg. wrong configuration settings) to me. > If script\server is running lighttpd and causing trouble, do > “script\server webrick” instead. Though webrick does indeed do the job perfectly OK for development purposes. ~Dave – Dave S. Rent-A-Monkey Website Development > **[Tree Removal Service For Home & Businesses in Salt Lake City, UT](https://www.rentamonkey.com/)** > > Rent A Monkey Tree Service provides the safest, highest-quality tree removal for Salt Lake City, UT homes and businesses. Request a service today! PGP Key: [http://www.rentamonkey.com/pgpkey.asc](http://www.rentamonkey.com/pgpkey.asc) ---
**Author:** ![Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phillip_Novess)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-make-rails-not-cache/93998/4 "2006-04-17T22:19:50Z")
Dave S. wrote: > Surely it can’t be the default behaviour, otherwise why would support > for it > have been added if it was unusable because of caching issues? Sounds > like > the culprit might be something else (eg. wrong configuration settings) > to me. Oh yeah - make sure you’re not in production mode. That would certainly cause problems. ---
**Author:** ![Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phillip_Novess)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-make-rails-not-cache/93998/5 "2006-04-17T22:22:08Z")
There’s stuff abt this in the Agile book, and IIRC it’s pretty flexible/powerful, but I don’t recall the specifics off the top of my head (sorry). Google it with site:api.rubyonrails.com in the search, tho, because it’s definitely in there. Giles On 4/17/06, Dave S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > me. > Dave S. > Rent-A-Monkey Website Development > [http://www.rentamonkey.com/](http://www.rentamonkey.com/) > > PGP Key: [http://www.rentamonkey.com/pgpkey.asc](http://www.rentamonkey.com/pgpkey.asc) > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Giles B. [http://www.gilesgoatboy.org](http://www.gilesgoatboy.org) ---
**Author:** ![Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phillip_Novess)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-make-rails-not-cache/93998/6 "2006-04-18T01:09:15Z")
If your Samba server is misconfigured and not updating timestamps on files, then fix the configuration of your Samba server. Or better yet, don’t develop by editing files on a remote fileshare. 😉 Phillip Novess wrote: > Thanks for all the responses. > > I believe I’m in development mode. At least the lighttpd.conf file has > the RAILS\_ENV set to development. > > The cache of the views I know was mentioned in the docs. I remember > something about the mod time is compared to render time to determine > whether it should be compiled. However, I believe that when I edit > files via Samba on my Mac the mod time is n’t updated correctly and > thus never gets recompiled until I restart. > > The other caching problem is the cache in my browser. In PHP I use to > set the headers for no-pragma cache. How do you do this in Rails? My > browser is definitely caching. > > Thanks, > phill > > On Apr 17, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Giles B. wrote: > > There’s stuff abt this in the Agile book, and IIRC it’s pretty > flexible/powerful, but I don’t recall the specifics off the top of my > head (sorry). Google it with site:api.rubyonrails.com in the search, > tho, because it’s definitely in there. > > Giles ---
**Author:** ![Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Phillip\_Novess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phillip_Novess)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-make-rails-not-cache/93998/7 "2006-04-18T00:19:07Z")
Thanks for all the responses. I believe I’m in development mode. At least the lighttpd.conf file has the RAILS\_ENV set to development. The cache of the views I know was mentioned in the docs. I remember something about the mod time is compared to render time to determine whether it should be compiled. However, I believe that when I edit files via Samba on my Mac the mod time is n’t updated correctly and thus never gets recompiled until I restart. The other caching problem is the cache in my browser. In PHP I use to set the headers for no-pragma cache. How do you do this in Rails? My browser is definitely caching. Thanks, phill On Apr 17, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Giles B. wrote: There’s stuff abt this in the Agile book, and IIRC it’s pretty flexible/powerful, but I don’t recall the specifics off the top of my head (sorry). Google it with site:api.rubyonrails.com in the search, tho, because it’s definitely in there. Giles On 4/17/06, Dave S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > for it > purposes. > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Giles B. [http://www.gilesgoatboy.org](http://www.gilesgoatboy.org) * * * Rails mailing list removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)