Ruby on Rails form page caching including authenticity_token

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Published on 2010-03-05T04:30:19Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 17:39 UTC
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I have a simple Ruby on Rails form which includes an authenticity_token. Unfortunatly, I missed that when you page cache this page then the Authenticity Token becomes invalid. I'm glad I figured it out however.

How do you solve caching in such a case?

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