On Nov 5, 5:14 pm, Ramon Tayag <ra...@tayag.net> wrote: > Hey - I need your input regarding a problem I've come across. I'll first > explain what the problem is, and what I think the solution is. If I > misunderstood how things work, please let me know. > > # The problem > > I'm using Dragonfly (on-the-fly file processing) to serve images. Dragonfly > uses Rack::Cache to cache the processed images so subsequent requests are > served by Rack::Cache. The problem lies in Rack::Cache getting too busy > serving images. I thought the fix would be to let Rack::Cache use Apache's > X-Sendfile to serve images. You can read my journey in a StackOverflow > question I posted <http://stackoverflow.com/q/7980106/61018>. > Not really answering your question, but I've handled this situation by putting varnish in front of apache.
Fred > # The solution > > The solution would be to enable whatever's needed to get Rack::Cache to > serve files using X-Sendfile through Rack::Sendfile. After poking around > Rack::Cache, I found out that none of the Rack::Cache Entitystores are used > -- what's being used is Rails' own storage > solution<https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/3-1-stable/activesupport/lib/acti...> > . > > Is there a reason that FileStore doesn't support Rack::Sendfile at the > moment (why it uses Marshal)? What would be the easiest way to get to what > I need? Can I just tell Rails to use Rack::Cache's Disk entitystore? If > not, what do you guys think of letting the *body* of the *response* of * > FileStore* (yes, a bit of a mouthful) to respond to `to_path`? > > Thanks! > Ramon Tayag -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
