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How to specify memcache server to Rack::Session::Memcache?

I'm trying to configure my Rack app to use Memcache for sessions with Rack::Session::Memcache

How do I give it the options (such as server, username and password)?

Presently I have

use Rack::Session::Memcache

But I get the error

in `initialize': No memcache servers (RuntimeError)

Heroku has put the config in environment variables 

MEMCACHE_PASSWORD:           
MEMCACHE_SERVERS:            
MEMCACHE_USERNAME:

I know I can get these in Ruby with ENV['MEMCACHE_PASSWORD'] but I don't know how to give them to Rack::Session::Memcache

Edit: or to Rack::Session::Dalli that would be great too https://github.com/mperham/dalli

Solution

  • This config worked for Heroku, Dalli is clever and knows to look in the environment variables

        require 'dalli'
    require 'rack/session/dalli'
    use Rack::Session::Dalli, :cache => Dalli::Client.new

    After reading the source code at https://github.com/mperham/dalli/commit/4ac5a99