Rails: Scheduled task to warm up the cache?

Question

I am using the following to cache a slow loading page using memcached:

caches_action :complex_report, :expires_in => 1.day

The controller ac

Answer 1

Take a look at this gem:

https://github.com/tommyh/preheat

The gem is for preheating your Rails.cache.

From the documentation: This will "preheat" all your Rails.cache.fetch calls on your homepage. It is as simple as that!

    #app/models/product.rb
    def slow_method
      Rails.cache.fetch("product-slow-method-#{self.id}") do
        sleep 15
        Time.now
      end
    end

    #lib/tasks/preheat.rake
    namespace :preheat do
      desc "Preheat product caches"
      task (:products => :environment) do
        Preheat.it do
          Product.all.each do |product|
            app.get(app.products_path(product)) #or you could just call product.slow_method directly, whatever makes more sense
          end
        end
      end
    end

    #crontab -e
    0 * * * * /path/to/rake preheat:products RAILS_ENV=production 2>&1 >> #{Rails.root}/log/preheat.log &