I check the headers on my production server as

    curl --head -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" .js

and I get back the following headers which suggest RAILS is not setting the cachecontrol headers.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.7.67
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:01:55 GMT
Content-Type: application/javascript
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Md5: efb90436a465f8a73efb467109f745f3
Cache-Control: no-cache
Last-Modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:46:04 GMT
Etag: "efb90436a465f8a73efb467109f745f3"
X-Ua-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
X-Runtime: 0.001258
X-Content-Digest: 6493f457e9550773761bb1c2c52ec4cb44a19c19
X-Rack-Cache: stale, valid, store
X-Varnish: 164373614
Age: 0
Via: 1.1 varnish
Content-Encoding: gzip

I'd like to get heroku's varnish cache caching the assets and only refreshing on git push. Any ideas on how to get this?

Brad

I check the headers on my production server as

    curl --head -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" http://foo.heroku./assets/mobile.js

and I get back the following headers which suggest RAILS is not setting the cachecontrol headers.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.7.67
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:01:55 GMT
Content-Type: application/javascript
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Md5: efb90436a465f8a73efb467109f745f3
Cache-Control: no-cache
Last-Modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:46:04 GMT
Etag: "efb90436a465f8a73efb467109f745f3"
X-Ua-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
X-Runtime: 0.001258
X-Content-Digest: 6493f457e9550773761bb1c2c52ec4cb44a19c19
X-Rack-Cache: stale, valid, store
X-Varnish: 164373614
Age: 0
Via: 1.1 varnish
Content-Encoding: gzip

I'd like to get heroku's varnish cache caching the assets and only refreshing on git push. Any ideas on how to get this?

Brad

• javascript
• ruby-on-rails
• caching
• heroku
• ruby-on-rails-3.1

• This article should shed some light on the issue: jimmycuadra./posts/… – Jey Balachandran Commented Feb 11, 2012 at 23:21

2 Answers 2

You have to add this in your environment/production.rb:

config.serve_static_assets = true
config.static_cache_control = "public, max-age=172800"

Camille's answer is right for Rails versions before 5.1

However, in Rails 5.1 config.static_cache_control will be deprecated. The code updated with the new available option should be:

config.serve_static_assets = true
config.public_file_server.headers = { 'Cache-Control' => 'public, max-age= 172800' }