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Memcached & Dalli
Memcached is an excellent cache store, and Dalli is the best way to interact with it through Ruby. Here I show various ways to use Memcached in a Rails app including how to set it up in production.
(12 minutes)
Cache Digests
The cache_digests gem (also included in Rails 4) will automatically add a digest to the fragment cache key based on the template. If a template changes the cache will auto-expire. But watch out for the gotchas!
(7 minutes)
Autocomplete Search Terms
Learn how to add autocompletion to a search form and improve performance using Rack middleware, caching and switching from SQL to Redis.
(17 minutes)
Caching in Rails 2.1
Rails 2.1 brings some new caching features which makes it very easy to cache any values including models. See how in this episode.
(8 minutes)
Fragment Caching (revised)
If you need to cache a certain section of a page instead of the entire page, fragment caching is the way to go. Learn how caching is stored, how to create auto expiring caches, and more.
(9 minutes)
Touch and Cache
Rails 2.3.3 brings us a new feature called "touch". See how to use this to auto-expire associated caches in this episode.
(6 minutes)
Dynamic Page Caching
Use JavaScript to allow dynamic content in a page cache. In this episode I show you how to insert the user-specific content into a page through JavaScript.
(11 minutes)
Action Caching
Action caching behaves much like page caching except it processes the controller filters. You can also make it conditional as seen in this episode.
(7 minutes)
Fragment Caching
Sometimes you only want to cache a section of a page instead of the entire page. Fragment caching is the answer as shown in this episode.
(6 minutes)
Page Caching
Page caching is an efficient way to cache stateless content. In this episode I will show you how to cache the dynamic javascript we created last week.
(6 minutes)