Spandex Memcache Store is now in Rails 2.3

By nahum | February 4, 2009

Just a quick note to say that the local cache functionality of my Spandex Memcache Store Plugin has been included in Ruby on Rails 2.3 RC1. After I released the plugin I was asked to submit a patch to Rails Edge adding it’s functionality – which I did over my Christmas break. My changes have subsequently been re-factored a bit, decoupling the local cache functionality from the MemCacheStore class and moving it to being a wrapper around whatever caching store is used. Hurray for open source!

The plugin is still useful as I didn’t submit it’s session caching changes to Rails – essentially using Rails.cache for session storage rather than establishing a second connection to MemCache. This also benefits from the local cache changes.

Where next? In the next week or so I plan on updating the plugin by removing the local cache functionality to prevent any conflicts with Rails 2.3 when it’s released.

After that, I’m planning on working through the list of changes detailed under Future Plans in the plugins readme, also listed below.

TESTS! (I wrote a bunch for the patch, just need to do that for the remaining session changes)
Make this a Gem
Conditional caching
Multi-Get
Dynamic key helpers
Make the code more awesome

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