This is a Rails plugin to disable asset caching for the javascript_include_tag and stylesheet_link_tag Rails helpers. The issue with those is they just don't scale across multiple servers.
And this is why, in glorious ASCII ART:
Browser Router Server 1 Server 2
| | | |
GET /index.html ---------|------------------> |
} generates all.js |
<-------------------------------------------- |
| | | |
| | | |
GET /javascripts/all.js -|------------------|--------------------->
} 404!
<------------------------------------------------------------------
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To sum up: a request for a cached/collapsed asset might end up in a server that didn't generate it yet.
Copyright (c) 2010 Pedro Belo and Terence Lee, released under the MIT license