Installed RoR under lighttpd and noticed that caching some actions
didn’t accelerate page serving. The following little example of
class TestscriptController < ApplicationController
caches_page :index
def index
@string = Time.now.to_s
end
end
and
Test
Test
<%= controller.action_name %>
<%= @string %>
does work in development mode with caching turned on under WinXP with
Webrick. It does not work in lighttpd with fastcgi on FedoraCore. I
already browsed through the various log but no obvious errors were to be
seen.
And Rails / Ruby is able to write into the public directory (as another
script of mine puts to good effect).
Well, Webrick runs in development mode with caching manually turned on
and works fine.
Lighttpd runs in production mode with the default parameters from
/environment/production.rb and does not work.
I just tried some shenannigans with the config files and suddenly the
above example will create the testscript.html in /public. However, for
some weird reason, the testscript.html is always updated which somewhat
defeats the purpose of caching.