Comments on Revolution On Rails: Advanced Rails Caching.. on the Edge

sachin, At the moment I'd only recommend mongrel-e...

2007-12-14T22:18:00.000-08:00

sachin,

At the moment I'd only recommend mongrel-esi for development. With a little work however, I could see it being usable for production. I've already added support to store the cached fragments in memcached, making it horizontally scalable... my next goal is to improve the tests and make the initial page hits run more concurrently for sites with more then 10 esi fragments..

We use oracle web cache at revolution health.

This is great info and is leading me down some new...

2007-12-12T21:41:00.000-08:00

This is great info and is leading me down some new directions in regards to how we build our site. Is mongrel-esi only for development mode? If so, what do you use in production?

Also, I'd love to hear how esi integrates w/ CMS, at some point. Seems like this would be a very powerful way to handle the modular site architecture you guys have built.

This is eye-opener info, really. I feel I need to ...

2007-08-23T11:27:00.000-07:00

This is eye-opener info, really. I feel I need to rethink everything I know about Rails-scaling.
Thanks.

In this case, mongrel-esi doesnt replace mongrel, ...

2007-08-07T13:18:00.000-07:00

In this case, mongrel-esi doesnt replace mongrel, its acting as a development-only proxy server that sits in front of mongrel. If you study the implementation, it is a custom mongrel handler, but its current implementation is a proxy server because we have multiple applications sitting behind it, not just one.

So does mongrel-esi replace the normal mongrel the...

2007-08-07T09:44:00.000-07:00

So does mongrel-esi replace the normal mongrel then?