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> what if I wanted something different to be computed? Like maybe html snippets? I would expect the cache key to mention everything about the thing it’s caching.

This is exactly where you'd use something like ActiveSupport::Cache.expand_cache_key(["blog posts", blog.posts]). You can add bits of info to your cache keys to distinguish them from one another.

It's probably also worth mentioning that the `cache` view helper does parts of it for you already, and takes into account the digest of the view code itself among other things. Rails provides a really neat abstraction here that does make caching easier.

It has some rough edges, and some gotchas, but overall it's pretty smart.



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