Rails - Nov 2005 - expire_fragment outside of a controller

I am trying to figure out a way to call the
expire_fragment outside of a controller.  I need to
expire some fragments on a hourly basis.  I have a
Thread that every hour that will perform a task.  The
expire_fragment is located in the module
ActionController::Caching::Fragments as an instance
method.

Do I need to mixin the model
ActionController::Caching::Fragments into my class? 
Or is there some other way?

thanks,

scott.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Scott F. Walterscottwalter.com --explorer
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On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Scott Walter wrote:
> I am trying to figure out a way to call the
> expire_fragment outside of a controller.  I need to
> expire some fragments on a hourly basis.  I have a
> Thread that every hour that will perform a task.  The
> expire_fragment is located in the module
> ActionController::Caching::Fragments as an instance
> method.
>
> Do I need to mixin the model
> ActionController::Caching::Fragments into my class?
> Or is there some other way?
>
> thanks,
>
> scott.

Scott -

     I am doing the same sort of thing on my site(in my sig) that  
needs to expire the cache every 1.5 hours. The best solution I came  
up with is a cron job that uses script/runner to expiry the cache. It  
works great and you don''t need any ruby threads hanging around  
potentially causing errors. Something like this that is a repetitive  
time operation is what cron and friends are good at. Right tool for  
the right job and all that.

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