Question

I have a controller index action which returns json output.

render :json => my_array.to_json

What type of caching do I have to use here. Does ‘page caching’ make sense for this.

Or do I have to do action caching like below

caches_action :index

Answer 1

Either action caching or page caching would work fine; page caching would have the benefit of never calling the Rails stack, but it depends on whether you need to control who accesses that Json feed.

I’m a big fan of using page caching if you can get away with it – there are big savings on system resources to be had. 🙂

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EDIT: Page caching example, in case there was any confusion:

class SomeController < ApplicationController
  caches_page :index
  def index
    render :json => my_array.to_json
  end
end

Unless I’ve misunderstood something, that should be all you need to do.