development.rb

# For rails, running memcache in development mode
# check if memcached is running; if it is, enable caching
# To start use $ memcached -m 64 -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 -vv -u root
begin
  Timeout.timeout(0.5) { TCPSocket.open("localhost", 11211) { } }
  config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
  config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store, "localhost:11211", { :namespace => "quub" }
rescue StandardError
  config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
  config.cache_store = :file_store, "#{Rails.root}/tmp/cache"
end