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Mr_Nizzle
Mr_Nizzle

Reputation: 6714

Rails 3 - Is there any fallback for when serving assets from an asset server fails?

In my production.rb I've set this:

# Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts from an asset server
  config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://myassets.com"

And the images, js and stylesheets are loading fine from my CDN (assets server)

but what if someday this asset servers fails? and it returns a 404?

Because in my assets server (CDN) I have configure a pull zone, the content is still available from /assets/...

Is there any fallback or how can I make a fallback so when my assets server fails or return error my application loads assets from /assets/ inside the application?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 973

Answers (2)

anxiety
anxiety

Reputation: 1709

production.rb

config.action_controller.asset_host = Proc.new { |source, request, asset_path|
  if some_condition
    "http://myassets.com"
  else
    asset_path
  end
}

For more info, see AssetTagHelper

Edit

I don't think this precaution is worth the extra load/added requests to your application. If you were building a large application with failover servers to provide high availability, assets would be yet another thing you'd accommodate for with that redundancy. If you're hosting your stuff on the cloud through a service like AWS or Rackspace, I think you're good on availability and you shouldn't worry about the issue. This approach almost completely negates the benefit of caching assets.

Upvotes: 4

delagroove
delagroove

Reputation: 277

You might explore the following directive 

ActionController::Base.asset_host = Proc.new { |source, request|
  if #code to check if CDN is alive
    "CDN Url"
  else
    "/public/assets/"
  end
}

Upvotes: 0

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