2 Jul
Using the latest memcache-client in Rails
One annoyance with ActiveSupport is waiting for the vendored libraries to get upgraded. Recently, we wanted the latest and greatest version (1.7.4) of the memcache-client as we were experiencing some interesting timeout issues.
Mike Perham, the memcache-client maintainer, documented how to do this (”Using memcache-client 1.6.x in Rails < 2.3″). His hack works great if the memcache-client gem is installed, but not if you vendor the gem. I like to have my gems under source control, so here is a how I hacked ActiveSupport to use memcache-client 1.7.4.
Working great so far :-)
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