Memcached in Ruby

gistfile1.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'memcache'

class Memcaching

  def initialize
    @cache = MemCache.new 'localhost:11211', :namespace => 'goofingaroundwithmemcached'
  end 

  def load_key_into_memcache(key,value)
    @cache.set(key, value, 0)
  end   

  def key_from_memcache(key)
    @cache.get(key)
  end   
end   


mc = Memcaching.new
key = "mykey"
value = "myvalue"
mc.load_key_into_memcache(key,value)
puts mc.key_from_memcache(key)