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data/Gemfile ADDED
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+ source 'https://rubygems.org'
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+
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+ # Specify your gem's dependencies in cachify.gemspec
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+ gemspec
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+ Copyright (c) 2013 Kashyap
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+
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+ MIT License
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+
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+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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+ a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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+ "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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+ without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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+ distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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+ permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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+ the following conditions:
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+
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+ The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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+ included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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+ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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+ EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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+ MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
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+ NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
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+ LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
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+ OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
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+ WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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+ # Cachify
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+
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+ This is an extract from the Upton parser project. This serves as a drop-in
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+ replacement for all ye download-cache-reading needs.
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+
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+
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+
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+ ## Installation
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+
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+ Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
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+
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+ gem 'cachify'
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+
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+ And then execute:
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+
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+ $ bundle
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+
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+ Or install it yourself as:
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+
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+ $ gem install cachify
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+
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+ ## Usage
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+
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+ The primary interface is the `Cachify::Downloader` class. This takes three
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+ paramters: a URI, a cache enable/disable option, and a cache location.
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+
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+ **options**
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+
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+ * URI: For now, only `get` requests work properly since the library
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+ internally uses `open-uri` for the fetching part. You can encode the URL
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+ as per your requirement.
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+
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+ * Cache enable/disable: This takes a truthy or falsy value. True-ish if
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+ you want caching and false-ish if you don't want it.
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+
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+ * Cache location: This is the cache location. By default, this is set to
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+ `Dir.tmpdir/cachify`.
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+
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+ # Checks if a cache is present. If not, the cache is created,
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+ # the file is downloaded and is saved in the cache and is read.
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+ Cachify::Downloader.new("http://www.example.com").get
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+
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+ # Ignores the cache and downloads the url for every call to #get
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+ Cachify::Downloader.new("http://www.example.com", :cache => false).get
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+
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+ # Ignores the cache and downloads the url for every call and saves
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+ # the cache to the "cache" folder in the same directory
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+ Cachify::Downloader.new("http://www.example.com", :cache => false, :cache_location => "./cache").get
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+
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+
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+ ## Todo
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+
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+ 1. #get reads the whole file. Ideally, this should just save the file in
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+ the cache or memory. A #read method should read the file contents.
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+
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+ ## Contributing
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+
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+ 1. Fork it
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+ 2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
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+ 3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
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+ 4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
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+ 5. Create new Pull Request
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+ require "bundler/gem_tasks"
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+ # coding: utf-8
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+ lib = File.expand_path('../lib', __FILE__)
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+ $LOAD_PATH.unshift(lib) unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(lib)
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+ require 'cachify/version'
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+
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+ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
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+ spec.name = "cachify"
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+ spec.version = Cachify::VERSION
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+ spec.authors = ["Kashyap"]
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+ spec.email = ["kashyap.kmbc@gmail.com"]
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+ spec.description = %q{Manages downloading and caching of files}
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+ spec.summary = %q{Manages downloading and caching of files}
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+ spec.homepage = ""
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+ spec.license = "MIT"
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+
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+ spec.files = `git ls-files`.split($/)
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+ spec.executables = spec.files.grep(%r{^bin/}) { |f| File.basename(f) }
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+ spec.test_files = spec.files.grep(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})
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+ spec.require_paths = ["lib"]
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+
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+ spec.add_development_dependency "bundler", "~> 1.3"
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+ spec.add_development_dependency "rake", ">= 0.9"
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+ spec.add_development_dependency "rspec", ">= 2.13"
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+ spec.add_development_dependency "webmock", "1.13.0"
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+
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+ spec.required_ruby_version = ">= 1.9.2"
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+ end
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+ require "cachify/version"
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+ require "fileutils"
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+ require "open-uri"
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+ require "tmpdir"
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+
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+ module Cachify
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+
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+ class Downloader
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+ attr_reader :uri, :cache_location
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+ def initialize(uri, options = {})
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+ @uri = uri
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+ @cache = options.fetch(:cache) { true }
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+ @cache_location = options[:cache_location] || "#{Dir.tmpdir}/cachify"
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+ initialize_cache!
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+ end
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+
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+ def get
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+ if cache_enabled?
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+ download_from_cache
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+ else
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+ download_from_resource
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ def download_from_resource
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+ open(uri).read
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+ end
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+
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+ def download_from_cache
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+ file = if cached_file_exists?
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+ open(cached_file).read
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+ else
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+ download_from_resource
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+ end
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+ File.write(cached_file, file) unless cached_file_exists?
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+ file
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+ end
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+
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+ def cache_enabled?
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+ !!@cache
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+ end
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+
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+ def hashed_filename_based_on_uri
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+ Digest::MD5.hexdigest(uri)
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+ end
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+
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+ def cached_file
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+ "#{cache_location}/#{hashed_filename_based_on_uri}"
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+ end
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+
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+ def cached_file_exists?
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+ File.exists?(cached_file)
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+ end
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+
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+ def initialize_cache!
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+ unless Dir.exists?(cache_location)
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+ Dir.mkdir(cache_location)
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+ FileUtils.chmod 0700, cache_location
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ end
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+ end
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+ module Cachify
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+ VERSION = "0.0.1"
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+ end
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+ require "spec_helper.rb"
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+ require_relative "../lib/cachify.rb"
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+ require "webmock/rspec"
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+
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+ describe Cachify::Downloader do
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+
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+ def prorepublica
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+ File.read(File.expand_path("../fixtures/easttimor.html", __FILE__))
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+ end
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+
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+ def remove_default_cache_folder!
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+ FileUtils.rm_rf("#{Dir.tmpdir}/cachify")
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+ end
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+
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+ let(:cach) { Cachify::Downloader.new("http://www.example.com") }
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+ let(:uncach) { Cachify::Downloader.new("http://www.example.com", cache: false ) }
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+
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+ context "When caching enabled" do
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+
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+ context "When disk cache is unavailable" do
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+ before(:each) do
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+ remove_default_cache_folder!
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+ end
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+
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+ it "should download from the resource once" do
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+ stub = stub_request(:get, "http://www.example.com")
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+ cach.get
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+ stub.should have_been_requested.once
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+ end
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+
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+ it "should use the cache from the second request" do
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+ stub = stub_request(:get, "http://www.example.com")
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+ cach.get
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+ cach.get
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+ stub.should have_been_requested.once
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+ end
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+
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+ end
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+
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+ context "cache available" do
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+ it "should not make a http request" do
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+ stub = stub_request(:get, "http://www.example.com")
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+ cach.get
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+ stub.should_not have_been_requested
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ context "Different urls should have different caches" do
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+ let(:cach_one) { Cachify::Downloader.new("http://www.example.com", cache: true) }
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+ let(:cach_two) { Cachify::Downloader.new("http://www.example.com?a=1&b=2", cache: true) }
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+
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+ it "should create two cached files inside the cache directory" do
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+ stub_one = stub_request(:get, "http://www.example.com")
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+ stub_two = stub_request(:get, "http://www.example.com?a=1&b=2")
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+
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+ cach_one.get
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+ cach_two.get
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+ Dir.entries("/tmp/cachify").count.should eq(4)
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+ end
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+
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+ end
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+ end
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+ context "When caching disabled" do
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+ context "When #download is called twice" do
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+ it "should make two requests" do
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+ stub = stub_request(:get, "http://www.example.com")
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+ uncach.get
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+ uncach.get
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+ stub.should have_been_requested.twice
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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