# Caching controller code in development

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/caching-controller-code-in-development/32112>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [July 20, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/caching-controller-code-in-development/32112 "2008-07-20T19:49:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![covertrails](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@covertrails](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/covertrails)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/caching-controller-code-in-development/32112/1 "2008-07-20T19:49:23Z")

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I am running Rails 2.1.0 on an XP box. In development I have config.cache\_classes = false.

But...when I mod my controller code it does not pick up the change. This happens in Webrick and Mongrel (1.1.5)

Ideas?

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**Author:** ![jeff\_emminger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aca169/32.png) [@jeff\_emminger](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/jeff_emminger)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/caching-controller-code-in-development/32112/2 "2008-07-21T21:45:26Z")

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this is a normal controller in app/controllers, not in lib or vendor/ plugins?