Module: ActionController::Caching::Fragments
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| Included In: 
        ::ActionController::Base,
          ::ActionController::Caching,
          ::ActionView::TestCase::TestController,
          Rails::ApplicationController,
          Rails::InfoController,
          Rails::MailersController,
          Rails::WelcomeController
       | |
| Defined in: | actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/fragments.rb | 
Overview
Fragment caching is used for caching various blocks within views without caching the entire action as a whole. This is useful when certain elements of an action change frequently or depend on complicated state while other parts rarely change or can be shared amongst multiple parties. The caching is done using the #cache helper available in the Action View. See ::ActionView::Helpers::CacheHelper for more information.
While it's strongly recommended that you use key-based cache expiration (see links in CacheHelper for more information), it is also possible to manually expire caches. For example:
expire_fragment('name_of_cache')Instance Method Summary
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      #expire_fragment(key, options = nil)  
    
    Removes fragments from the cache. 
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      #fragment_cache_key(key)  
    
    Given a key (as described in #expire_fragment), returns a key suitable for use in reading, writing, or expiring a cached fragment. 
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      #fragment_exist?(key, options = nil)  ⇒ Boolean 
    
    Check if a cached fragment from the location signified by keyexists (see #expire_fragment for acceptable formats).
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      #read_fragment(key, options = nil)  
    
    Reads a cached fragment from the location signified by key(see #expire_fragment for acceptable formats).
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      #write_fragment(key, content, options = nil)  
    
    Writes contentto the location signified bykey(see #expire_fragment for acceptable formats).
Instance Method Details
#expire_fragment(key, options = nil)
Removes fragments from the cache.
key can take one of three forms:
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::String - This would normally take the form of a path, like pages/45/notes.
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::Hash - Treated as an implicit call to url_for, like{ controller: 'pages', action: 'notes', id: 45}
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::Regexp - Will remove any fragment that matches, so %r{pages/\d*/notes}might remove all notes. Make sure you don't use anchors in the regex (^or$) because the actual filename matched looks like./cache/filename/path.cache. Note: Regexp expiration is only supported on caches that can iterate over all keys (unlike memcached).
options is passed through to the cache store's delete method (or delete_matched, for ::Regexp keys).
# File 'actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/fragments.rb', line 79
def expire_fragment(key, = nil) return unless cache_configured? key = fragment_cache_key(key) unless key.is_a?(Regexp) instrument_fragment_cache :expire_fragment, key do if key.is_a?(Regexp) cache_store.delete_matched(key, ) else cache_store.delete(key, ) end end end
#fragment_cache_key(key)
Given a key (as described in #expire_fragment), returns a key suitable for use in reading, writing, or expiring a cached fragment. All keys are prefixed with views/ and uses ActiveSupport::Cache.expand_cache_key for the expansion.
# File 'actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/fragments.rb', line 21
def fragment_cache_key(key) ActiveSupport::Cache.(key.is_a?(Hash) ? url_for(key).split("://").last : key, :views) end
    #fragment_exist?(key, options = nil)  ⇒ Boolean 
  
Check if a cached fragment from the location signified by key exists (see #expire_fragment for acceptable formats).
# File 'actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/fragments.rb', line 52
def fragment_exist?(key, = nil) return unless cache_configured? key = fragment_cache_key(key) instrument_fragment_cache :exist_fragment?, key do cache_store.exist?(key, ) end end
#read_fragment(key, options = nil)
Reads a cached fragment from the location signified by key (see #expire_fragment for acceptable formats).
# File 'actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/fragments.rb', line 40
def read_fragment(key, = nil) return unless cache_configured? key = fragment_cache_key(key) instrument_fragment_cache :read_fragment, key do result = cache_store.read(key, ) result.respond_to?(:html_safe) ? result.html_safe : result end end
#write_fragment(key, content, options = nil)
Writes content to the location signified by key (see #expire_fragment for acceptable formats).
# File 'actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/fragments.rb', line 27
def write_fragment(key, content, = nil) return content unless cache_configured? key = fragment_cache_key(key) instrument_fragment_cache :write_fragment, key do content = content.to_str cache_store.write(key, content, ) end content end