Ruby-MemCache

A Ruby memcache client library.

Authors

 Michael Granger <mgranger@RubyCrafters.com>

Thanks to Martin Chase and Rick Bradley for peer review, suggestions, and bugfixes.

General Information

According to its documentation, memcache "is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load."

This is a Ruby client library for accessing one or more memcache servers.

Installation

Requirements

Ruby 1.8.2
Memcached 1.1.12

Quickstart

Install:

  $ install.rb

The install script will check for dependencies and install the libraries.

Or, if you have RubyGems (rubygems.rubyforge.org/) installed, you can install the gem version via:

  gem install --remote Ruby-MemCache

Contact

Project Page: www.deveiate.org/code/Ruby-MemCache.html

Legal

This library is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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