Clear Direction cache via CLEAR_DIRECTION_CACHE

README.md

@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ bundle exec rake pdfs
 The above command builds the static files and PDFs into the folder `public`.
+Due to the number of API requests necessary for generating the Direction page,
+the results of those requests are cached for 36 hours. If you need the page to
+be updated earlier than that, provide the `CLEAR_DIRECTION_CACHE` [environment
+variable](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines.html#manually-executing-pipelines).
+
 ## Custom Generators
 There are a few custom, static generators specified in `config.rb`. For

generators/direction.rb

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ class GitLabInstance
     end
     @name = name
+
+    cache_store.clear if ENV.key?('CLEAR_DIRECTION_CACHE')
   end
   def get(path, params = {})