evan/memcached — Issue #85: Implementation help required
Author: nexar
Created: 2012-02-25 12:53:54+00:00
State: open

This is not an issue but I don't know where else to put this. Some background:

Stack:
Apache 2
Phusion Passenger
Rails 3.2.1
Ruby 1.9.3

I moved my app to a new hosted environment and put it into production mode. However there is a bug in the current rails caching mechanism (https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/545) which is requiring me to move away from the default cache_store. Looking around I came across your gem here and would like to use it. My questions are:

1. Can I use it as an alternative to the default cache_store?

2. If 'Yes' then :
a. what is my Gemfile entry?
b. what is my config.cache_store = ???

3. Since I'm totally new to this would I need to download memcached and install it on my Ubuntu 11.10 system first? I'm getting a bit confused between memcached the caching software and your gem due to the identical names.

Thanks for your help.

Purvez