Why is max-age in config.static_cache_control being ignored?

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In config/environments/production.rb I have set

config.serve_static_assets = true

config.static_cache_control = “public, max-age=1000”

But the response header for application-fingerprint.css is something like the following where you can see max-age hasn’t been changed to 1000. I’m assuming this is the result of some interaction with rack-cache but I don’t know how to solve my problem.

Age:2943

Cache-Control:public, max-age=3600

Connection:Keep-Alive

Content-Encoding:gzip

Content-Length:13851

Content-Type:text/css

Last-Modified:Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:52:50 GMT

Server:WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/1.9.3/2012-04-20)

Vary:Accept-Encoding

X-Content-Digest:94af71be4b455214a008971627ca52b848e40fc1

X-Rack-Cache:fresh

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If I remember right, anything served from /app/assets is not considered static to the system because it requires more to route it, but anything in /public should be considered a static asset and will fall under your cache control. Since I normally handle all my headers via Apache or Nginx I don't remember if this is entirely the case anymore but again if I remember right everything again in /app/assets is considered compiled on the fly unless you compile it to /public.

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I solved my problem by running

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

It appears that the setting for config.static_cache_control is being lazily cached.

If I do the following, I get back max-age=1000 in the response header

config.static_cache_control = “public, max-age=1000”

precompile assets

start webrick

visit webpage

However if I do the following I don’t get back max-age=1000, instead I get max-age=2000

config.static_cache_control = “public, max-age=1000”

precompile assets

start webrick

close webrick

config.static_cache_control = “public, max-age=2000”

start webrick

visit webpage

Can someone explain to me how this is possible and give a model for how config.static_cache_control is being saved?