Disabling Paperclip asset timestamp keeps you from committing genocide

Posted at September 8, 2009

Know what’s frustrating? Having a flash app that pulls xml from a controller not function. What’s even more frustrating is finding out it’s because of asset timestamp caching. That’s right, that stupid little ‘?293636′ is a form of caching, and works fine, except when it’s being swallowed by flash via XML. I forgot to write about this a while ago, then ran into it again and it reminded me, some of you may be tools and need help, so here ya go.

1	<%= image_tag @image.source.url(:large, false) %>

See that false, it says to disable the timestamp caching. Simple, right? You bet. So, next time you have flash pulling in XML and pictures aren’t showing up, it’s probably because the image path in your XML is using timestamp caching. Peace, I’m outy 5000.