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Rack::Cache is suitable as a quick drop-in component to enable HTTP caching for Rack-based applications that produce freshness (Expires, Cache-Control) and/or validation (Last-Modified, ETag) information.

  • Standards-based (see RFC 2616 / Section 13).
  • Freshness/expiration based caching
  • Validation
  • Vary support
  • Portable: 100% Ruby / works with any Rack-enabled framework.
  • Disk, memcached, and heap memory storage backends.

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Installation

$ sudo gem install rack-cache

Or, from a local working copy:

$ git clone git://github.com/rtomayko/rack-cache.git
$ rake package && sudo rake install

Basic Usage

Rack::Cache is implemented as a piece of Rack middleware and can be used with any Rack-based application. If your application includes a rackup (.ru) file or uses Rack::Builder to construct the application pipeline, simply require and use as follows:

require 'rack/cache'

use Rack::Cache,
  :verbose     => true,
  :metastore   => 'file:/var/cache/rack/meta',
  :entitystore => 'file:/var/cache/rack/body'

run app

Assuming you've designed your backend application to take advantage of HTTP's caching features, no further code or configuration is required for basic caching.

More

  • Configuration Options - how to set cache options.

  • Cache Storage Documentation - detailed information on the various storage implementations available in Rack::Cache and how to choose the one that's best for your application.

  • Things Caches Do - an illustrated guide to how HTTP gateway caches work with pointers to other useful resources on HTTP caching.

  • GitHub Repository - get your fork on.

  • Mailing List - for hackers and users (rack-cache@groups.google.com).

  • FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about Rack::Cache.

  • RDoc API Documentation - Mostly worthless if you just want to use Rack::Cache in your application but mildly insightful if you'd like to get a feel for how the system has been put together; I recommend reading the source.

See Also

The overall design of Rack::Cache is based largely on the work of the internet standards community. The following resources provide a good starting point for exploring the basic concepts of HTTP caching:

Rack::Cache takes (liberally) various concepts from Varnish and Django's cache framework.

License

Rack::Cache is Copyright © 2008 by Ryan Tomayko and is provided under the MIT license