Rails Caching with Memcached

January 16, 2023

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Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

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Rails ships with support for using Memcached as the cache storage. Memcached is an open source, key value store that is designed primarily for caching. Out of the box it is configured to automatically expire old cache keys and can easily be scaled up with

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