
= Ruby-MemCache

A Ruby memcache client library.


== Authors

 Michael Granger <mgranger@RubyCrafters.com>

 Thanks to Martin Chase, Rick Bradley, Robert Cottrell, and Ron Mayer for peer
 review, bugfixes, improvements, and suggestions.


== General Information

According to its documentation, memcache "is a high-performance, distributed
memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in
speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load."

This is a Ruby client library for accessing one or more memcache servers.


== Installation

=== Requirements

* Ruby 1.8.3 <http://www.ruby-lang.org/>
* Memcached 1.1.12 <http://www.danga.com/memcached/>


==== Quickstart

Install:

  $ install.rb

The install script will check for dependencies and install the libraries.

Or, if you have RubyGems (http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/) installed, you can
install the gem version via:

  gem install --remote Ruby-MemCache


== Contact

* Project Page: http://www.deveiate.org/projects/RMemCache/


== Legal

Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 The FaerieMUD Consortium. Most rights reserved.

This library is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. To view
a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ or
send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California
94305, USA.

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


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