Comments on: JRuby, Rails and Statics http://jamescrisp.org/2007/09/09/jruby-rails-and-statics/ C#, .NET, Ruby, Rails, book reviews, mind hacks, Wing Chun and the occasional personal bit. Fri, 18 May 2012 00:35:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: James http://jamescrisp.org/2007/09/09/jruby-rails-and-statics/#comment-120 James Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:19:15 +0000 http://jamescrisp.org/2007/09/09/jruby-rails-and-statics/#comment-120 Hey Sudhindra, Thanks for your comment. You could indeed store data in a file and it sounds great for a counter. I'm thinking it would be less fun for a cache though, as the cache could easily be multi-megabytes in size - ie, in need of indexing similar. It would also have more speed overhead than in memory with the disk reads, especially if the file was stored on a network drive rather than local (as in some production deployment environments). James Hey Sudhindra,

Thanks for your comment. You could indeed store data in a file and it sounds great for a counter. I'm thinking it would be less fun for a cache though, as the cache could easily be multi-megabytes in size - ie, in need of indexing similar. It would also have more speed overhead than in memory with the disk reads, especially if the file was stored on a network drive rather than local (as in some production deployment environments).

James

]]> By: Michael Kedzierski http://jamescrisp.org/2007/09/09/jruby-rails-and-statics/#comment-119 Michael Kedzierski Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:52:42 +0000 http://jamescrisp.org/2007/09/09/jruby-rails-and-statics/#comment-119 I'm pretty sure one of the built-in caching mechanisms in Rails is to write out static html pages which then get served up by the web server directly. Though, if you want to cache certain values only, your approach seems useful. I'm pretty sure one of the built-in caching mechanisms in Rails is to write out static html pages which then get served up by the web server directly. Though, if you want to cache certain values only, your approach seems useful.

]]> By: Sudhindra Rao http://jamescrisp.org/2007/09/09/jruby-rails-and-statics/#comment-118 Sudhindra Rao Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:05:50 +0000 http://jamescrisp.org/2007/09/09/jruby-rails-and-statics/#comment-118 James, How about using a file to store your static data? In Ruby every time you change that static number or data just update that file. I had done that for a php app once for implementing page hit counters. Sudhindra James,
How about using a file to store your static data? In Ruby every time you change that static number or data just update that file. I had done that for a php app once for implementing page hit counters.

Sudhindra

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