Update documentation based on the new changes for strong & weak ETags [ci skip]

- Update info for weak ETag
- Add info for strong ETag
- Add examples for strong and weak ETags
- Display difference between generated strong and weak ETags strings.

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md b/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md
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--- a/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md
+++ b/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md
@@ -512,12 +512,38 @@ class ProductsController < ApplicationController
 end
 ```
 
-### A note on weak ETags
+### Strong v/s Weak ETags
 
-Etags generated by Rails are weak by default. Weak etags allow semantically equivalent responses to have the same etags, even if their bodies do not match exactly. This is useful when we don't want the page to be regenerated for minor changes in response body. If you absolutely need to generate a strong etag, it can be assigned to the header directly.
+Rails generates weak ETags by default. Weak ETags allow semantically equivalent
+responses to have the same ETags, even if their bodies do not match exactly.
+This is useful when we don't want the page to be regenerated for minor changes in
+response body.
+
+Weak ETags have a leading `W/` to differentiate them from strong ETags.
+
+```
+  W/"618bbc92e2d35ea1945008b42799b0e7" → Weak ETag
+  "618bbc92e2d35ea1945008b42799b0e7" → Strong ETag
+```
+
+Unlike weak ETag, Strong ETag implies that response should be exactly same
+and byte by byte identical. Useful when doing Range requests within a
+large video or PDF file. Some CDNs support only strong ETags, like Akamai.
+If you absolutely need to generate a strong ETag, it can be done as follows.
+
+```ruby
+  class ProductsController < ApplicationController
+    def show
+      @product = Product.find(params[:id])
+      fresh_when last_modified: @product.published_at.utc, strong_etag: @product
+    end
+  end
+```
+
+You can also set the strong ETag directly on the response.
 
 ```ruby
-  response.add_header "ETag", Digest::MD5.hexdigest(response.body)
+  response.strong_etag = response.body # => "618bbc92e2d35ea1945008b42799b0e7"
 ```
 
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