Vidibus::AssetCacheBuster¶ ↑

Rewrites cache buster for assets to a static string that is sure to be cached by proxy servers.

Example:

/stylesheets/screen.css?1297772836

will become

/stylesheets/screen.1297772836.css

For more information about proxy caching, take a look at the documentation of Google’s Page Speed tool.

This gem is part of the open source service-oriented video framework Vidibus.

Add the dependency to the Gemfile of your application:

gem "vidibus-asset_cache_buster"

Then call bundle install on your console.

To get this solution working, it is required to add some configuration to your Apache2 VirtualHost:

# Remove timesstamp from versioned static javascripts, stylesheets, and images.
# This requires a change in Rails so that assets will be included as image.12345.jpg
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(javascripts|stylesheets|images)/(.+)\.(.+)\.(js|css|jp?g|gif|png)$ /$1/$2.$4 [L]

This rewrite does not support SSL yet. Maybe Apache2 config should be improved…

Copyright © 2011 Andre Pankratz. See LICENSE for details.