Rails Memcacheing using Dalli

Dalli is a High performance memcached client for Ruby. ####Before using dalli -

Dalli requires memcached 1.4+. Check the version using :

  $ memcached -h

memcached -h shows memcached version and help .

If version is not 1.4+ then install memcached 1.4.x with on mac.

  $ brew install memcached

You can check memcached is running on your machine or not by command -

  $ ps -ax | grep memcached
    1455 ??         0:00.90 /usr/local/bin/memcached -d -p 11211
    7629 ttys009    0:00.00 grep memcached

If memcached not running then start it on port 11211.

  $ /usr/local/bin/memcached -d -p 11211

To Verify installations run :

  $ gem install dalli

Then test it with a sample of code on rails console :

         require 'dalli'
          dc = Dalli::Client.new('localhost:11211')
          dc.set('abc', 123)
          => true
          dc.get('abc')
          => 123

####Using ‘Dalli’ in your rails 3.X application - Add gem dalli in your Gemfile.

Run bundle install

In config/environments/development.rb :

  # Global enable/disable all memcached usage
  config.perform_caching = true

  config.cache_store = :dalli_store, '127.0.0.1'

set server to localhost use 127.0.0.1 .

For ENV=production in config/environments/production.rb:

  config.cache_store = :dalli_store, your_server

To expire cache in day :

  config.cache_store = :dalli_store, '127.0.0.1', :expires_in => 1.day

Now, you can cache data by using Rails Cache .