Re: Mason 2.0 thoughts

On Sat, 12 May 2007, Jonathan Swartz wrote:

> That works for caching a whole page, which in my experience is rarely
> possible on a dynamic site. cache_self allows you to cache the output
> of an arbitrary component, such as a form menu or nav bar.
>
> That said, I would prefer to provide a replacement for cache_self
> that looks more like Rails' fragment caching (http://
> api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Caching/Fragments.html).
> e.g.
>
>     <% Cache (... cache flags ...) { %>
>     ...
>     [a component or part of a component]
>     ...
>     <% } %>
>
> Of course this syntax doesn't work out of the box in Mason because
> Perl doesn't support Ruby-style blocks, and our <% %> doesn't have
> the right semantics. But you get the idea. I want it to be just as
> easy to cache a portion of a component as cache_self makes it to
> cache an entire component.

If only we had a syntax for this ...

  <&| Cache, ... cache flags ... &>

  [some component content]

  </&>

;)


-dave

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