Rails - Nov 2006 - hacking nginx to do some very basic logic.

Hi,

I want to optimize my home page load as long as a user is not logged in.  I
currently use Rails fragment caching but still, I want to avoid going to
Rails if the user is not logged in because the page to be rendered is really
just static.  I can''t use page caching really because I can''t
apply any
logic as that would require going to Rails.  Could I use a cookie that gets
sent from the browser to nginx when a user goes to the homepage of my site
and nginx then checks that cookie info and determines whether to serve the
page directly or forward the request to Mongrel?  I would really love to
serve the entire homepage from Nginx rather than having to hit Rails.

Thanks,
Sam
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