rails 3 caching: expire action for named route

Question

My controller has this:

caches_action :render_ticker_for_channel, :expires_in => 30.seconds

In my routes file I have this:

Answer 1

There should definitely be a more "Rails Way" to do this, but this might work as a back door: Rails.application.routes.url_helpers will give you access to your helpers and each will return a string that's the path and/or url that would be sent to the browser in a Location header.

Try Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.render_ticker_for_channel_path(63) which should return /render_c_t/63 and Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.render_ticker_for_channel(63, :host => 'mcr3.dev') which should return http://mcr3.dev/render_c_t/63

With some manipulation you could parse apart that second string to get back to the name that Rails is using for the cached action:

def funky_action_cache_name(route, params)
  Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.send(route.to_s+'_url', params).gsub(/https?:\/\//,'')
end

# expire_action(funky_action_cache_name(:render_ticker_for_channel, :id => 63))

Not the most beautiful solution, but should work!