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diff --git a/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md b/guides/source/caching_with_rails.md index fd7626250c..6cdce5c2f4 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 are configured to use this implementation in development environment by default. + +NOTE: Since processes will not share cache data when 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. @@ -396,14 +401,15 @@ config.cache_store = :file_store, "/path/to/cache/directory" ``` With this cache store, multiple server processes on the same host can share a -cache. The cache store is appropriate for low to medium traffic sites that are +cache. This cache store is appropriate for low to medium traffic sites that are served off one or two hosts. Server processes running on different hosts could 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 @@ -570,6 +576,20 @@ You can also set the strong ETag directly on the response. response.strong_etag = response.body # => "618bbc92e2d35ea1945008b42799b0e7" ``` +Caching in Development +---------------------- + +It's common to want to test the caching strategy of your application +in development mode. Rails provides the rake task `dev:cache` to +easily toggle caching on/off. + +```bash +$ bin/rails dev:cache +Development mode is now being cached. +$ bin/rails dev:cache +Development mode is no longer being cached. +``` + References ---------- |