Conditional Page Caching [Solution: Conditional Fragment Caching]

Question

Suppose that I have controller

home_controller.rb

with action

index

.

I want to cache index page so I'm doing:

caches_page :index

but want it to cache only for users that are not signed in. If I'll make conditional like:

caches_page :index, :if => :user_not_signed_in?

Page will be cached while first not logged in user comes. Now every logged in user also see not-logged in content. Is there a way to separate this action without changing url?

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Answer 1

What you want couldn't be achieved;

A page is cached or is not cached. The process checks the existence of a html file or process it.

Still you have two alternatives:

use action caching or fragment caching (not recommended)
more recommended: load user specific part with ajax so you'll only have one page always cached and specific data inserted dynamically (like stackoverflow)

Here are state of the art explanations: http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails

Conditional Page Caching [Solution: Conditional Fragment Caching]

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