How to call expire_fragment from Rails Observer/Model?

Question

I\'ve pretty much tried everything, but it seems impossible to use expire_fragment from models? I know you\'re not supposed to and it\'s non-MVC, but surely there much be

Answer 1

Why not have your external rake tasks call the expiry method on the controller. Then you're still being MVC compliant, you aren't building in a dependence on some scoping hack, etc.

For that matter, why don't you just put all the daemon / external functionality on a controller and have rake / cron just call that. It would be loads easier to maintain.

-- MarkusQ