How to re-build the page cache

How to re-build the page cache

If you upgrade, or something goes wrong, or you just delete the contents of the cache directory in your wiki, then it will be rebuilt automatically. Unfortunately this can take quite a long time for very large wikis (I have a 4,500 page wiki). I will try and improve this in a future version of soks, but in the mean time, you can write yourself a small script to rebuild the cache by duplicating the start.rb script in your wiki folder and modifying it to be something like this.


#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

# This file is to rebuild the cache.  Don't blindly copy, but make your start.rb look like this.

$LOG = Logger.new(STDOUT)
$LOG.level = Logger::DEBUG
$LOG.datetime_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" 

#Add the required libraries to the search path
begin
    require 'rubygems'
    require_gem 'Soks', '~> 1.0.0'
    $LOG.info 'Loaded Soks 1.0.0 from gem'
rescue LoadError
    $LOG.info "Soks Gem version 1.0.0 could not be found" 
    $:.push( "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Soks-1.0.0/lib","/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Soks-1.0.0/lib/helpers","/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Soks-1.0.0//contrib" )
    require 'soks'
    $LOG.info 'Loaded Soks libraries from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Soks-1.0.0/lib","/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Soks-1.0.0/lib/helpers","/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Soks-1.0.0//contrib'
end

root_directory = File.expand_path( File.dirname( __FILE__) )
$MESSAGES = YAML.load( IO.readlines("#{root_directory}/views/messages.yaml").join )
banned_titles = IO.readlines("#{root_directory}/banned_titles.txt").map { |title| title.strip }

module Notify
    def notify( event, *messages)
        #raise "Sorry! Shutting down..." if @shutting_down
        #self.event_queue.event( event, messages )
    end
end

class View
    def shutdown
        @wiki.save_cache(REDCLOTH_CACHE_NAME,@redcloth_cache)
    end
end

wiki = Wiki.new( "#{root_directory}/content", "#{root_directory}/caches" )
wiki.load_all_pages
wiki.shutdown
$LOG.info "Written page cache" 

view = View.new( wiki, "http://localhost:9999", "#{root_directory}/views" )
view.name = 'A Soks Wiki'
view.description = 'A Soks Wiki for you!'
view.reload_erb_each_request = false
view.dont_frame_views = ['print','rss','listrss','linksfromrss']
view.redcloth_hard_breaks = false
view.author_to_email_conversion = '@address-not-known.com'

wiki.each do |pagename, page| 
    view.rollingmatch[ page.name ] = page
end

wiki.each do |pagename, page| 
    view.redcloth( page )
end

wiki.shutdown
view.shutdown
$LOG.info "Written view cache"

Wow, that helped a bunch. Went from 8+ hours to 3 minutes. Thanks. —Bil

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