Except in the collection you actually would put [u.name,u.id]
On May 26, 11:33 am, BenH <[email protected]> wrote: > in your config/environment/development.rb file (or whatever > environement your are configuring) > > config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store > > Depending on how much memory you want to consume you can either load > your whole user model, the name to ID collection or just the users > that log in. > > In the User model do something like: > > def self.names > Rails.cache.fetch('user_names', :expires_in => 3600) > {User.all.collect {|u| [u.id,u.name]}} # names are cached for 1hr > (3600 seconds) > end > > again in your controller: > > def list > @names ||= User.names.sort > end > > in your view: > <% @names.each do |name| -%> > <%= name[0] -%><br /> > <% end -%> > > If the names aren't cached or the cache is older than the one hour > defined in the model then the fetch method knows to go grab them > afresh. > > I'm using memcache in a more complex manner with full objects and it > works like a charm - as a matter of fact this has taken common > requests for fetching data completely off of the database. I rebuild > the cache without using expiration by implementing callbacks on > modification of the underlying data - this has taken load times for > data intensive / cmplex data sets from 20+ seconds down to an > imperceivable delay... makes clients happy to see that kind of > improvement. :) > > Naturally you will need to have the memcache service running somewhere > in your environment. > Hope that helps > Ben > > On May 26, 4:05 am, wakathane <[email protected]> wrote: > > > hey, > > > for performance reasons i want to cache (template) variables using > > memcache, making access to data easy in templates by using a simple > > syntax like <%=users(2).name%>. this actually should tell the view to > > load the field 'name' from the model/table 'users' with id=2. it first > > tries memcache and if not found, loads the data from the and stores it > > in memcache. > > > has anyone done this before, any ready to use plugins available? :). > > if not, any ideas/suggestions on how to implement this best in ror? > > > caching partials or whole actions is not an option because of too > > complex dependencies. > > > thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
