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diff --git a/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md b/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md index aa79f59e4f..798fea9f30 100644 --- a/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md +++ b/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md @@ -387,6 +387,11 @@ store is not appropriate for large application deployments. However, it can work well for small, low traffic sites with only a couple of server processes, as well as development and test environments. +New Rails projects will be configured to use this implementation in the +development environment by default. (Note that, because processes will not share +cache data, if using `:memory_store` it will not be possible to manually read, +write or expire the cache via the Rails console.) + ### ActiveSupport::Cache::FileStore This cache store uses the file system to store entries. The path to the directory where the store files will be stored must be specified when initializing the cache. @@ -403,7 +408,8 @@ share a cache by using a shared file system, but that setup is not recommended. As the cache will grow until the disk is full, it is recommended to periodically clear out old entries. -This is the default cache store implementation. +This is the default cache store implementation (at `"#{root}/tmp/cache/"`) if +no explicit `config.cache_store` is supplied. ### ActiveSupport::Cache::MemCacheStore |