"Tom Machinski" <tom.machinski / gmail.com> writes: > On 10/28/07, Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk / dessyku.is-a-geek.org> wrote: >> The other thing you can play with is using sqlite as the local (one >> per app server) cache engine. > > Thanks, but if I'm already caching at the local process level, I might > as well cache to in-memory Ruby objects; the entire data-set isn't > that huge for a high-end server RAM capacity: about 500 MB all in all. Caching to in-memory ruby objects does not automatically confer the smartness you was describing. The sqlite is for the smartness. I think Ara T Howard in the other thread was quite spot-on in summarising your need. YS.