Bruno, Maybe it would be a good idea to list all these things that you think need to be addressed in CE, in a wiki TODO list on github.
This way maybe people will be more motivated to contribute to CE dev. At least would help me see what needs to be done and I would pick the task that I am best at. Just an idea, Andrei On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Bruno Bornsztein < [email protected]> wrote: > I'll have to take a closer look at this when I get more time, but could you > try putting this in your environment.rb: > > ActionController::Base.cache_store = :file_store, "#{RAILS_ROOT}/tmp/cache" > > See if that solves your problems. > More broadly, though, the caching and sweeping in CE needs a little TLC, > and testing! > > Thanks, > Bruno > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Justin G <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> About a month ago I launched my community engine site into the wild. >> At the time, I had some caching issues with the front page. I read up >> on how caching works in rails and looked at the code a bit, but >> everything looked OK. So I figured it was best to disable caching for >> the site_index action and swore to revisit the issue at a later time. >> >> I'm running my production site on mod_passenger so I also limited the >> number of processes to 1. I figured that if the cache was being >> stored in memory, then different processes could be serving from >> different caches. Since the problem was hit or miss it seemed like >> this could also be the issue. (And with a small site running on a VPS >> with limited memory I wasn't yet worried about scalability.) >> >> Anyway, I recently noticed a problem with comments that weren't >> updating. I received an email that someone commented on my post, but >> I could only see the comment if I was logged in. I figured it was a >> caching problem so I restarted the server and the problem went away. >> Here are some things I found while investigating the issue, and an >> issue I am still having. >> >> Original Problem >> >> I tracked part of the problem down to the fact that the comment >> sweeper wasn't clearing all copies in the cache. My development.log >> file showed that the comment_sweeper was clearing /jtgeibel/posts/7- >> testing (among other things), but it wasn't clearing /posts/show/7- >> testing (the cache fragment that is actually being hit). I looked at >> the code and made the following change: >> >> - expire_action :controller => 'posts', :action => 'show', :id >> => record.commentable , :user_id => record.commentable.user >> + expire_action :controller => 'posts', :action => 'show', :id => >> record.commentable >> >> From what I can tell, rails is only clearing the cache for the more >> specific route containing a user_id. However, its the action posts/ >> show that is actually being cached. With this fix, I now see the >> fragment cache being cleared in the log, but I'm still having one very >> strange problem. >> >> New Problem >> >> I can see in the development log that the cache is being cleared, but >> the first time I view the page (after logging out) I actually get a >> cache hit. If I refresh the page again, I see the updated page. Here >> is a commented portion of what I am seeing in my log file. >> >> $ cat ../../../log/development.log |grep fragment >> >> # ensure cache is full before posting a comment >> Cached fragment hit: views/dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/posts/ >> show/7-testing<http://dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/posts/%0Ashow/7-testing>(0.1ms) >> # commenting expires caches >> Expired fragment: views/dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/application/ >> footer_content (0.1ms) >> Expired fragment: views/dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/application/ >> footer_content (0.1ms) >> Expired fragment: views/dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/posts/show/ >> 7-testing<http://dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/posts/show/%0A7-testing>(0.1ms) >> Expired fragment: views/dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/index >> (0.1ms) >> Expired fragment: views/dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/categories/ >> 4-Talk >> <http://dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/categories/%0A4-Talk>(0.1ms) >> # logout and refresh and we get a cache hit >> Cached fragment hit: views/dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/posts/ >> show/7-testing<http://dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/posts/%0Ashow/7-testing>(0.1ms) >> # refresh again and we get a hit, followed by a miss in the same >> request. The correct content is rendered. >> Cached fragment hit: views/dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/posts/ >> show/7-testing<http://dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/posts/%0Ashow/7-testing>(0.1ms) >> Cached fragment miss: views/dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/posts/ >> show/7-testing<http://dev.pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/posts/%0Ashow/7-testing>(0.1ms) >> >> Any thoughts on why I'm getting stale data on the first request? Or >> why the second request has a hit, followed by a miss? >> >> >> > > > > -- Andrei Erdoss --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
