If mechanize was installed as a gem do you have: require 'rubygems' before the: require 'mechanize' hemant kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I am using memcache-client written by beloved :) eric hodel for session > caching in rails, and but I would like to use this for some in-memory > caching in my other programs. > > I am not able to use it outside rails somehow. require 'memcache' throws, no > such file to load, when I have the gem in > "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.3/ and rails is using it > allright. > > The API for memcache also doesn't make it clear, how do I use it in my own > applications. can anyone clarify on this? > > Also, when using CachedModel for activerecord caching..how exactly it works? > how often will it do read and write to db? > > What exactly is meant by "in-process" caching that CacheModel does? > Also the after_filter stuff that is supposed to flush the local cache in > rails, I would like to know what is meant by "local cache" stuff and how it > determines when to flush that content? > > >