Rails Page Caching with Subdomains and Advanced Cache Invalidation Cron

Continuing to fight the good fight against Rails’ slowness and processor intensive handicap, I have been working a lot with page caching over the last day. I think I finally have a decent setup now. This write up talks about the Rails side of caching. This assumes that apache is serving up cached pages just fine. This also assumes you are using sub domains and have somewhat advanced...

Mongrel Rails + mod_proxy + mod_rewrite configuration for caching

Now that the Adamantine Arts site is getting more traffic, I wanted to implement page caching to really speed things up and prevent excessive server load. I’ll discuss page caching in Rails in more detail at another time. The problem at hand however was to get apache, mongrel, mod_proxy, and mod_rewrite to all play nice together. My initial stabs at the problem gave me all sorts of grief....