An ActiveSupport cache store that uses the C-based libmemcached client through Evan Weaver's Ruby/SWIG wrapper, memcached. libmemcached is fast (fastest memcache client for Ruby), lightweight, and supports consistent hashing, non-blocking IO, and graceful server failover.

This cache is designed for Rails 3.2+ applications.

You'll need the memcached gem installed:

gem install memcached

or in your Gemfile

gem 'memcached'

There are no other dependencies.

Just add to your Gemfile

gem 'libmemcached_store', '~> 0.7.1'

and you're set.

This is a drop-in replacement for the memcache store that ships with Rails. To enable, set the config.cache_store option to libmemcached_store in the config for your environment

config.cache_store = :libmemcached_store

If no servers are specified, localhost is assumed. You can specify a list of server addresses, either as hostnames or IP addresses, with or without a port designation. If no port is given, 11211 is assumed:

config.cache_store = :libmemcached_store, %w(cache-01 cache-02 127.0.0.1:11212)

Standard Rails cache store options can be used

config.cache_store = :libmemcached_store, '127.0.0.1:11211', {:compress => true, :expires_in => 3600}

More advanced options can be passed directly to the client

config.cache_store = :libmemcached_store, '127.0.0.1:11211', {:client => { :binary_protocol => true, :no_block => true }}

You can also use :libmemcached_store to store your application sessions

require 'action_dispatch/session/libmemcached_store'
config.session_store :libmemcached_store, :namespace => '_session', :expire_after => 1800

You can use :libmemcached_local_store if you want a local in-memory cache for each request

config.cache_store :libmemcached_local_store

Increment / Decrement only work on raw values:

Rails.cache.write 'x', '1', :raw => true
Rails.cache.increment 'x' # => 2
Rails.cache.decrement 'x' # => 1

Used with Rails, libmemcached_store is at least 1.5x faster than dalli. See BENCHMARKS for details

Thanks to Brian Aker (http://tangent.org) for creating libmemcached, and Evan Weaver (http://blog.evanweaver.com) for the Ruby wrapper.