My controller has this:
caches_action :render_ticker_for_channel, :expires_in => 30.seconds
In my routes file I have this:
match '/render_c_t/:channel_id' => 'render#render_ticker_for_channel', :as => :render_channel_ticker
In the log file I see this:
Write fragment views/mcr3.dev/render_c_t/63 (11.6ms)
How do I expire this manually? I need to expire this from a different controller than the render controller, but even within the render controller I can't get it to expire the right thing.
If I do:
expire_action(:controller => 'render', :action => 'render_ticker_for_channel', :id => c.id)
I see:
Expire fragment views/mcr3.dev/render/render_ticker_for_channel/63 (3.2ms)
If I do:
expire_action(:controller => 'render', :action => 'render_c_t', :id => c.id)
I see:
Expire fragment views/mcr3.dev/render/render_c_t/63 (3.2ms)
This:
expire_action("render_c_t/#{c.id}")
produces:
Expire fragment views/render_c_t/63 (3.5ms)
How can I get it to expire the same path that 'caches_action' is producing?!
Use the regex version of expire_fragment:
expire_fragment %r{render_c_t/#{c.id}/}
There should definitely be a more "Rails Way" to do this, but this might work as a back door: Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
will give you access to your helpers and each will return a string that's the path and/or url that would be sent to the browser in a Location header.
Try Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.render_ticker_for_channel_path(63)
which should return /render_c_t/63
and Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.render_ticker_for_channel(63, :host => 'mcr3.dev')
which should return http://mcr3.dev/render_c_t/63
With some manipulation you could parse apart that second string to get back to the name that Rails is using for the cached action:
def funky_action_cache_name(route, params)
Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.send(route.to_s+'_url', params).gsub(/https?:\/\//,'')
end
# expire_action(funky_action_cache_name(:render_ticker_for_channel, :id => 63))
Not the most beautiful solution, but should work!
caches_action :render_ticker_for_channel, :if => proc do
!!params['doCache']
end
But for this solution to work we need to pass an extra param either through query string or post body.