Re: [Rails] cach invalidation help

Ruby on Rails Monday, June 19, 2017


Not sure were you got all of this code from… were you following an example somewhere?

This appears to be way overcomplicated for your use case.

The definitive and nearly ubiqutious method for simple object caching (incidentally, the singular form is spelled "cache," as in a small hiding place. The word comes from the French, not to be confused with cachet, which also comes from French, and means "superior status" or "prestige") is from the DHH post from 2013…



Assuming your objects are ActiveResource objects, you automatically get cache_key defined for you.

All you need to do is wrap the expensive (processing/time-intensive) code in the caching mechanism

Rails.cache.fetch(@contact)
   // serialize or render the response data
end 


… that's it. As explained in DHH's post from 2013, cache_key on @contact automatically includes the timestamp of when the record was last updated. When you make a change to any field the update_at timestamp changes, and so does the cache key, invalidating all caches associated with that cache key.

All of the other code you have looks like you went down a caching rabbit hole that is unnecessary. (But learning the internals of the Rails caching mechanism is a good thing for your own edification!)

-Jason 




On Jun 18, 2017, at 2:51 AM, Arup Rakshit <tuka.08@gmail.com> wrote:

I have the below code:

class ContactsController < ApplicationController
 
  # ..

  def top_3
    cache_identifiers = { contact_1: 1, contact_2: 2, contact_3: 3 }
    cache_keys = cache_identifiers.keys
    cached_keys_with_values = Rails.cache.read_multi(*cache_keys)
    uncached_keys = cache_keys.map { |key| key unless cached_keys_with_values.has_key?(key) }.compact
    uncached_ids = uncached_keys.map { |key| cache_identifiers[key] }
    uncached_contacts = Contact.where(id: uncached_ids).to_a

    uncached_keys.zip(uncached_contacts).each do |key, value|
      Rails.cache.write(key, value)
    end

    @contacts = cache_keys.map do |key|
      cached_keys_with_values[key] || uncached_contacts.shift
    end
  end
end

I am using memcached as cache store. Now my question is how can I invalidate the cache when say any of the attributes(name, email) of the contact record changes.

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