Mongrel_rails can't find memcache-client

t_s · March 24, 2010, 7:56am

I added memcache-client to our app:
config.gem “memcache-client”, :version => “1.8.1”

According to “gem list” the gem is there:
memcache-client (1.8.1)

If I run our app with “script/server” everything works just fine but
when I try to run it with “mongrel_rails start” it stops with error:
no such file to load – memcache-client

So is there something different how mongrel_rails looks up gems? What is
so special about this gem as the other gems work just fine?

t_s · March 24, 2010, 11:02am

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:56 AM, T_ S_ [email protected] wrote:

So is there something different how mongrel_rails looks up gems? What is
so special about this gem as the other gems work just fine?

When you start mongrel_rails, you’re doing without daemonize, correct?

There is no configuration file that indicates mongrel should change
user or group when running, correct?

It might be that the memcache-client gem is not installed system wide.

I’ve used mongrel_rails, combined with memcache-client and memcached
in a bundler configuration and worked without issues, so the problem
might be something else.

Can you build an exact pastie/gist of the output you’re receiving? (or
can replicate with a simple rails app?)

Thank you

Luis L.
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t_s · April 23, 2010, 7:47am

I switched from gem “memcache-client” to gem “memcache” and it works
without any problems. Both gems are installed in the same way etc.

Unfortunately rails when set to use memcache as a session store
references to the “memcache-client” so that needs to be included also
and I’m back with the original error message.

Funny things is of course that it’s not really using that
“memcache-client” gem as in an initializer i say

CACHE = Memcache.new(:server => “localhost:11211”, :namespace => ‘web’,
:segment_large_values => true)

And in session_store.rb

ActionController::Base.session = {
:key => ‘_xxxxx’,
:secret => ‘xxxxxxx’,
:cache => CACHE,
:expires => 15.minutes
}

So the end result is that when I start mongrel with “mongrel_rails
start” it complains that “no such file to load – memcache-client” but
the server keeps running and app works as that gem is not really used.

When you start mongrel_rails, you’re doing without daemonize, correct?

Yep.