Rails3: Change location of temp (tmp) directory

Question

I usually develop in my local Dropbox folder. Some files in the tmp-folder get locked by the browsers (and keep Dropbox busy), Growl throws exceptions and so on.

Th

Answer 1

you can't change tmp directory, but you can configure tmp cache directory.

# config/application.rb
config.cache_store                   = [ :file_store, "/tmp/rails-cache/" ]
config.assets.cache_store            = [ :file_store, "/tmp/rails-cache/assets/#{Rails.env}/" ]

you can read more at configuration.rb