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I didn’t think this moment would come this soon for me. I’ve only been playing with Rails and Ruby for about 3 months.

I did some growing up as a Rails developer last night when I had to change Rails core for Noobkit.

Testing ‘production’ at 3am right before I “quickly” put up the new build brought up a problem with page caching. Noobkit is using URLs which include ‘::’ characters in their paths and silly Rails tries to create fragment cache files with those characters in the path.

That resulted in an obscure and very non descriptive error Errno::EINVAL. This had to be fixed, and so it was:

module NoobkitCaching
  def self.append_features(base)
    base.extend(ClassMethods)
  end

  module ClassMethods
  private
    def page_cache_file(path)
      super.gsub(/::|\^/, '')
    end
  end
end

# and then in environment.rb
ActionController::Base.send :include, NoobkitCaching