Warning: I'm still new to python and web2py so this may be wacky, but...
Could you make a cached method with side-effects and an infinite expiry?
Since RAM would always be cleared on a restart it would theoretically only
ever be run on cold start.
first_time = False
def first_start_check():
global first_time; first_time = True
return True
cache.ram('startup', lambda: first_start_check(), time_expire=None)
if first_time == True:
print "It's the first time!"
On Thursday, May 31, 2012 5:28:21 AM UTC+1, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
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> On May 30, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
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> you can make a cron job in admin @reboot
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> It'd have to be soft cron, yes? And it wouldn't run until after my app
> services its first request after restart, if I remember my soft cron logic
> aright.
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> On Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:10:13 UTC-5, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
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>> I've got an application that uses memcached. I'd like to recognize when
>> web2py gets restarted (mod_wsgi, fwiw) so I can flush my cache. No doubt I
>> can figure something out, but I'm sure I must be missing something obvious.
>> (My motivation: in my development environment, I sometimes blow away my
>> database when installing and starting a new copy of the app, and things get
>> confused when the cache is still holding data from the earlier run.)
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