Is it possible to clear the Spring gem's cache?

Question

I'm trying to complete an assignment that creates a near identical application to a previous assignment. It calls for an application called todolists. This is the same as the previous assignment so, in order to be able to start fresh I renamed the previous assignment to todolists_mod1. I then discovered the issue is with the Spring gem keeping a record of the previous assignment.

I know I can disable Spring using the DISABLE_SPRING variable. This seems a bit tedious to me.

Is there a way I can force Spring to drop the previous assignment's application from its cache or otherwise clear the cache entirely without uninstalling the gem?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is the same issue that you are having, but it is a tad similar. I had an issue where for some reason rails s and rails c were using two different database settings.

I had been using one database.yml config for a while and then altered it recently. When I ran rails s it used the new database config, but when I ran rails c it used the old config for some reason.

After trying a few different things to no avail I stopped Spring(spring stop) and then re-ran rails c which auto-started Spring. After that rails c started using the new configuration.

Again I have no idea if this is the answer you are looking for, but it did help me.

--EDIT--

To be clear, when I stopped Spring I ran spring stop inside of the top level of my application directory.