How do I clear the cache of Ruby Phusion Passenger in Ubuntu?

Question

I've tried restarting apache and the cached pages still appear, so there must be a folder someplace. I don't have a 'public/cache', so what other places should I look? Is there a URL flag that could trigger this effect as well?

Bussell

Answer 1

You need to touch a file to have phusion clear out, like:

touch /webapps/mycook/tmp/restart.txt

See the docs

Margy

Yup, that causes a restart of the site, which saves all the other sites from restarting. – Bussell

Answer 2

I'm in development mode.

I discovered I had to restart the apache service and clear the browser cache to get my changes to appear 100% of the time.

Bussell

Answer 3

First, have you cleared your browsers cache? You can do this through the browser menus, in options somewhere.

The next question I would ask is are you running the app in production or development mode?

Inamorato

Answer 4

For those who come here nowadays

Now there is more abilities to restart passanger from ssh Here is the updated doc

passenger-config restart-app

or

passenger-config restart-app /Users/phusion/testapp

and the old way which can be done if you had only FTP access

touch tmp/restart.txt

this one will be done not immediately, passanger will look for its modified timestamp to be changed to perform restart.

Chapnick

Answer 5

Ctrl+F5 will forcibly reload the page, and all it's linked assets.

It's kind of like clearing the cache for just that one page.

Sulfapyrazine