Dalli

Dalli is a high performance pure Ruby client for accessing memcached servers.

Dalli supports:

Simple and complex memcached configurations

Failover between memcached instances

Fine-grained control of data serialization and compression

Thread-safe operation (either through use of a connection pool, or by using the Dalli client in threadsafe mode)

SSL/TLS connections to memcached

SASL authentication

The name is a variant of Salvador Dali for his famous painting The Persistence of Memory.

Documentation and Information

User Documentation - The documentation is maintained in the repository's wiki.

Announcements - Announcements of interest to the Dalli community will be posted here.

Bug Reports - If you discover a problem with Dalli, please submit a bug report in the tracker.

Forum - If you have questions about Dalli, please post them here.

Client API - Ruby documentation for the Dalli::Client API

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

Contributing

If you have a fix you wish to provide, please fork the code, fix in your local project and then send a pull request on github. Please ensure that you include a test which verifies your fix and update the changelog with a one sentence description of your fix so you get credit as a contributor.

Appreciation

Dalli would not exist in its current form without the contributions of many people. But special thanks go to several individuals and organizations:

Mike Perham - for originally authoring the Dalli project and serving as maintainer and primary contributor for many years

Eric Wong - for help using his kgio library.

Brian Mitchell - for his remix-stash project which was helpful when implementing and testing the binary protocol support.

CouchBase - for their sponsorship of the original development

Authors

Peter M. Goldstein - current maintainer