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Youcef Medjellakh
Youcef Medjellakh

Reputation: 118

Add Expires header to rails assets

I am currently building a rails application and trying to improve its page speed insight mark. The only remaining warning would be my assets headers.

After looking at rails documentation and some articles on the internet, here's what I came up with in my production.rb file:

config.public_file_server.headers = {
    'Cache-Control' => 'public, s-maxage=31536000, max-age=86400',
    'Expires' => "#{1.day.from_now.httpdate}"
}

Now, here's what appears in my chrome network tab for my js/css file:

cache-control:public, max-age=86400
content-encoding:gzip
content-length:90444
content-type:application/javascript
date:Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:49:05 GMT
last-modified:Tue, 22 Aug 2017 08:49:06 GMT
server:...

The cache-control appears as it should but there's no expires header.

I also use cloudfront on top of that but I'm not sure I should/can alter the headers from there.

Am I doing it wrong?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1774

Answers (2)

iskvmk
iskvmk

Reputation: 392

If you are using Rails 4, then only Cache-Control response header can be set for assets served by Rails. That’s a limitation.

Your solution is working for Rails 5
There is a test in Rails 5 source code, which ensures that custom header is included in response:

  def test_serves_files_with_headers
    headers = {
      "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" => "http://rubyonrails.org",
      "Cache-Control"               => "public, max-age=60",
      "X-Custom-Header"             => "I'm a teapot"
    }

    app      = ActionDispatch::Static.new(DummyApp, @root, headers: headers)
    response = Rack::MockRequest.new(app).request("GET", "/foo/bar.html")

    assert_equal "http://rubyonrails.org", response.headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"]
    assert_equal "public, max-age=60",     response.headers["Cache-Control"]
    assert_equal "I'm a teapot",           response.headers["X-Custom-Header"]
  end

Also, even if you add Expires header somehow, max-age will take precedence anyway.

Upvotes: 4

Sachin R
Sachin R

Reputation: 11876

config.public_file_server.headers = {
    'Cache-Control' => 'public, s-maxage=31536000, max-age=86400',
    'Expires' => "#{1.day.from_now.to_formatted_s(:rfc822)}"
}

try this

Upvotes: 1

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