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Automatically cache pages in Rails, put this in /lib/tasks/cache.rake
# See rails source:
# https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/pages.rb
#
# Turn on caching in development, by changing this line to true in config/environments/development.rb:
#
# config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
#
# Then run:
#
# bundle exec rake pages:cache
#
# All cached pages will be in /public/path_name/xxxx.html
namespace :pages do
desc "Cache ALL the pages!"
task :cache => :environment do
# First, let's instantiate a new session so we can `get` our paths,
# just like if we were writing an integration test
app = ActionDispatch::Integration::Session.new(Rails.application)
# Now, we'll loop through each path we want to cache
%w( /index /about /contact /products /products/cool_thing /products/other_cool_thing ).each do |path|
# Get the path
app.get path
# Let's figure out the file path/name to which we're saving the file
file_path = "/cache/#{path.gsub('/', '_')[1,path.length]}"
# And now let's cache the response body HTML, using the ActionController's
ApplicationController.cache_page(app.response.body, file_path)
end
end
end
@WesleyKapow
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This was a huge help! THANK YOU!

If you're doing this as part of a build/deploy you may want to include:

    app.https!
    app.host! "www.exmaple.com" # replace with your domain!

Otherwise you may get root_url and other uses of host pointing at http://www.example.com instead of your domain!

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