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WhyAyala
WhyAyala

Reputation: 675

Rails production server not showing changes to views

I'm hosting a Rails 4 app on an ec2 instance and using Nginx, I added a view to a controller and was getting an error trying to navigate to the page through my browser till I reloaded nginx.conf. Once it came up I made some changes to the view but those weren't showing either till I reloaded nginx.conf again.

Obviously I don't want to reload nginx.conf every time I need to change a view. Is there something I'm missing to make this easier on myself?

Here is my nginx.conf file.

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  app-on-rails;
    passenger_enabled on;
    #charset koi8-r;

    #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

    root   /home/usr/www/app-on-rails/welcome;
    index index.html.erb;
}

My environments/production.rb file

Rails.application.configure do
  config.cache_classes = true
  config.eager_load = true
  config.consider_all_requests_local       = false
  config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
  config.serve_static_files = false
  config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier
  config.assets.compile = true

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2014

Answers (2)

Mahbub Ul Alam Shohag
Mahbub Ul Alam Shohag

Reputation: 3

In your environments/production.rb file, you may change the following line

config.cache_classes = false

This configuration determines, the ruby classes will not be cached. So your changes in code will reflect on refreshing the browser. As the classes are not cached, performance will be somewhat decreased. So, after your development, this below might be set to true.

Upvotes: 0

PinnyM
PinnyM

Reputation: 35531

Your nginx config appears to be using passenger. By default, in production mode all file content is parsed once, and cached in memory - so changes will not be immediately noticeable. To force a refresh, you need to at a minimum restart passenger. This can be done by simply touching the tmp/restart.txt file in your application root directory.

Upvotes: 2

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