This gem helps you to cache your resources. The gem allows a soft expiry of the cache. If the cache soft expires, it serves the stale resource, but tries to fetch the current resource via an async process. As of now, it works with Rails cache.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'cache_man'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install cache_man
class Test < ActiveResource::Base
include CacheMan::Fetchable
end
Test.fetch(1) # when invoked the first time, goes and fetches the resource from a remote location.
# After sometime we try to fetch the resource again
Test.fetch(1) # will return the value from the cache
# As of now, the soft expiration for the cache is hard coded to 20 mins
# We assume that your Rails cache expires after that
# After 20 mins
Test.fetch(1) # Still return the cached data, but spins an sysnc process to fetch the fresh dataWe are going to remove the hard coded expiry time and make it more configurable. Although the example is demonstrated with ActiveResource, the gem works for any class that responds to a find method. So, basically the example would still work if the Test class inherited from ActiveRecord::Base.
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request
Copyright (c) 2013 Suman Mukherjee
MIT License
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