Radiant Caching
Radiant cms is very powerful and customizable cms as of now which has inbuilt support for page caching.
Radiant caching mechanisam is somehow similar to action caching in rails.
In latest radiant version i.e. > 0.8 Responsecache has been replaced with Radiant::Cache.
By default radiant cache gets automatically invalidated after every 5
minutes and that is configurable.
The interval is easily configurable by adding following lines inside environment
if defined? ResponseCache == 'constant'
ResponseCache.defaults[:expire_time] = 4.hours
else
SiteController.cache_timeout = 4.hours
end
There are situations where automatic cache inavalidation won't work
and we need to clear radiant cache on the fly.
There are two ways to do that to invalidate radiant cache immediately.
1. Navigate to the root of your Radiant project and delete the cache directory.
cd /home/deploy/radiant_site/tmp
rm -r cache
2. Clearing the page cache from within your code
if defined? ResponseCache == 'constant'
ResponseCache.instance.clear
else
Radiant::Cache.clear
end
While building website using radiant cms, it happens that there are certain pages they are static and not going to change frequently that time configuring cache expiry time to long interval is going to be always beneficial and for pages which conatins dynamic content (displaying logged in user on homepage), we need to disable radiant cache for such pages. this can be done by using page_options extension.
Installation for radiant version 0.7
From your RADIANT_ROOT:
$ script/extension install page_options
Installation for radiant version 0.8 and higher
git clone git://github.com/sandipransing/radiant-page_options-extension.git vendor/extensions/page_options
Restart server
Usage
1. Goto /admin/pages
2. Edit any page
3. Click on more link and edit cache settings.
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