Added ActionController::Base.page_cache_extension for setting the page cache file extension (the default is .html) #903 [Andreas]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@1019 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

actionpack/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Added ActionController::Base.page_cache_extension for setting the page cache file extension (the default is .html) #903 [Andreas]
+
 * Fixed "bad environment variable value" exception caused by Safari, Apache, and Ajax calls #918
 
 * Fixed that pagination_helper would ignore :params #947 [Sebastian Kanthak]
@@ -8,7 +10,7 @@
 
 * Added :position option to link_to_remote/form_remote_tag that can be either :before, :top, :bottom, or :after and specifies where the return from the method should be inserted #952 [Matthew McCray/Sam Stephenson]
 
-* Added Effect.Highlight to prototype.js to do Yellow Fade Technique (of 37signals' fame) on any container #952 [Sam Stephenson/?]
+* Added Effect.Highlight to prototype.js to do Yellow Fade Technique (of 37signals' fame) on any container #952 [Sam Stephenson/courtenay]
 
 * Added include_seconds option as the third parameter to distance_of_time_in_words which will render "less than a minute" in higher resolution ("less than 10 seconds" etc) #944 [thomas@fesch.at]
 

actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching.rb

@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
     #
     # The cache directory should be the document root for the web server and is set using Base.page_cache_directory = "/document/root".
     # For Rails, this directory has already been set to RAILS_ROOT + "/public".
+    #
+    # == Setting the cache extension
+    #
+    # By default, the cache extension is .html, which makes it easy for the cached files to be picked up by the web server. If you want
+    # something else, like .php or .shtml, just set Base.page_cache_extension.
     module Pages
       def self.append_features(base) #:nodoc:
         super
@@ -58,6 +63,9 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
         base.class_eval do
           @@page_cache_directory = defined?(RAILS_ROOT) ? "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public" : ""
           cattr_accessor :page_cache_directory
+
+          @@page_cache_extension = '.html'
+          cattr_accessor :page_cache_extension
         end
       end
 
@@ -91,7 +99,7 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
         private
           def page_cache_file(path)
             name = ((path.empty? || path == "/") ? "/index" : path)
-            name << '.html' unless (name.split('/').last || name).include? '.'
+            name << @@page_cache_extension unless (name.split('/').last || name).include? '.'
             return name
           end