fragment caching with search box

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm trying to setup some fragment caching which works fine for the index but i'm not sure how to ignore the caching if they are searching the index results.

my code in short:

ItemsController

def index       @items = Item.search(params[:search], params[:min_rank], params[:max_rank], params[:classification_id], ...) end

index.html.erb <% cache ('items', {:page => params[:page] || 1}) do %>   <% for item in @items %> ...show output    <% end %> <% end %>

so my question is, what is the best way for me to ignore the caching in the index view if they enter a search term? maybe put an if statement to see if params[:search] is set?

how do you guys do this with multiple page views in the index with searching.

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I have this in my application_helper.rb

  def cache_unless( condition, name = {}, options = nil, &block)     cache_if( !condition, name, options, &block)   end

  def cache_if( condition, name = {}, options = nil, &block)     if condition       cache(name, options, &block)     else       yield     end   end

so now in my view I can do something like

<% cache_unless (params[:search], 'items', {:page => params[:page] || 1}) do %> <% for item in @items %> ...show output <% end %> <% end %>