- 1.Caching with Rails
Vincent Spehner
Twitter: @vzmind
Blog: vzmind.tumblr.com
Janvier 2011
2. Vzmind aka Ruby on Rails creator
3. Why caching ?
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4. Cache is everywhere
- Almostateachstepbeetween the request and the data itself, a
cache canbeadded
5. Rails cachingkeyworld: 6. Pages 7. Action 8. Fragment 9.
Sweepersconfig.action_controller.perform_caching = true
app/config/environments/production.rb
Proxy
(Squid, Varnish)
Web Server
(Apache, Nginx)
Rails Stack
(Rack,App)
DB (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
Browser
Cache as earlier as youcan
10. Pages caching
- Simpliest and mostdisconnectedfrom Rails Cache
11. Easy to implement but monotlithic and limited 12.
Storedinside the File System
onlyconfig.action_controller.page_cache_directory = RAILS_ROOT +
/
config/environment.rb
class Articles # Add cache on articles index page
caches_page :index
app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
Proxy
Web Server
Rails Stack
DB
Browser
public/cache/articles.html
13. Action caching
- A bit flexible withparameters and pathbuilder
14. Easy to implement 15. Carefulwithfilters (Action cachingis
an aroundfilteritself) 16. Carefulwith cache path 17. Chooseyour
Cache Storeconfig.action_controller.cache_store = :file_store,
RAILS_ROOT + /public/cache
config/environment.rb
class Articles caches_action :show,
:cache_path => Proc.new{ |controller|
if controller.request.mobile_device?
controller.params.merge(:mobile=>controller.request.mobile_device?)
else
controller.params
end}
app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
expire_action :action => :show
App/sweepers/article_sweeper.rb
Proxy
Web Server
Rails Stack
DB
Browser
public/cache/articles.html
18. Fragment caching
- Required for dynamicwebsites
19. Atomiccaching (result/string/object) 20. Chooseyour
CacheStore- cache(:action => list', :action_suffix =>
'all_articles) do
= All articles:
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=article.title
app/views/articles/index.haml.html
expire_fragment(:controller => articles', :action => list',
:action_suffix => 'all_articles')
app/sweepers/article_sweeper.rb
Proxy
Web Server
Rails Stack
DB
Browser
public/cache/articles.html
21. Overview of Cache Stores
- ActiveSupport::Cache::MemoryStore
22. Default memory storage 23. Store everything (even object)
24. Not thread safe 25. ActiveSupport::Cache::FileStore 26. Just
for my HTML output 27. Old school 28. Simple 29.
ActiveSupport::Cache::MemCacheStore 30. Most popularmemory cache
store 31. Multi servers 32. Time-basedexpiry support
