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Version 1.90.0 of GetText for Ruby has quite some memory leaks in its Rails support files. In my case, the memory Mongrel used increased by 1 MB with each request it served… Quite amazing that you don’t really find someone else having the problem… Well there’s at least a bug report on rubyforge…

Monkey-patching gettext.rb with the following code made things quite more relaxed:

  def bound_target(klass = self) # :nodoc:
    ret = nil
    if klass.kind_of? Class or klass.kind_of? Module
      ret = klass
    else
      ret = klass.class
    end
    ret = GetText if ret.name =~ /^\#<|^$/
    ret
  end

The memory usage grows extremly slow now and is acceptable for our current web site traffic.

Plus: It helps to “every now and then” call GetText.clear_cache - which I don’t like because you have to do it “manually”. It would be much better if GetText did its own garbage collection …

Tags: ruby, rails, gettext, memory leak

The latest Ruby gettext 1.10.0 gem broke the memcache based fragment caching of the current project I’m working on. I figured out what the problem was. gettext 1.10.0 tries to localize caching of fragments by kind of appending the Locale.current to the fragment cache key, e.g. “items/show/1″ becomes “items/show/1_en”, “items/show/1_de”, …

This by itself isn’t a problem but gettext also overwrites the default Rails implementation for expiring fragments. The gettext mechanism expires each localized cache fragment for a given key, e.g. “items/show/1_*” (where * is a wildcard). The current memcache-client gem (1.5.0) however doesn’t support wildcard based key access and a “delete_if method not defined” exception gets thrown.

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• Specs = Speculations
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Tags: agile, processes, ruby, rails