The ultimate frankenstein-like experiment of harnessing OpenURI and MemCached has been completed!
For a number of projects that used openuri, I needed a way to reduce hits on remote services or rest apis, or even speed up the experience on the client end.
Getting it
sudo gem install openuri_memcached
The beast is alive! (Usage, for those not on late hours right now)
Use exactly the same as you would openuri, only.. enable it.
require 'openuri_memcached'
OpenURI::Cache.enable!
open("http://germanforblack.com").read # Slow as a wet week
Quit your app (leave memcached running) and run the same example, it should now happen in less then … some time that is really fast.
Small print options
To get started run your memcached server
$ memcached -d
The default address that this gem will terminate against is localhost:11211, you can change this using:
OpenURI::Cache.host = ['serverone.com:11211', 'servertwo:11211']
The cache defaults to 15 minutes, however this can be changed using:
OpenURI::Cache.expiry = 60 * 10 # Ten long minutes
Let me know if you have any issues with it, or if you have any use for it!