Question

In my environment file, setting:

config.action_controller.perform_caching = true

causes javascript not to load at all.

The only javascript_include_tags i’m using are in three different view files and declared as such:

= javascript_include_tag 'jquery.timeago', 'application', 'rails_custom', :cache => 'common'
= javascript_include_tag 'application', 'rails_custom', :cache => 'common'
= javascript_include_tag 'jquery.validity.pack', 'jquery.timeago', 'application', 'rails_custom', :cache => 'common'

But the first and third ones are never included in the same request.

After setting the variable in the environment above, while hitting the application, a request for common.js is made and the server returns it, but Firefox gives a syntax error on it, claiming that a significant chunk of the file is not a function.

Under what circumstances would caching cause the combining of the javascript files to become invalid?

Answer 1

AFAIK you can’t use the same cache name for different sets of files. Otherwise it will keep getting overwritten in each request..