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To use The new Libmemcached and memcached by Evan Weaver , drop these lines on your config/environments/production.rb

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# See more on http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/memcached
require 'memcached'
config.action_controller.session_store = :mem_cache_store
memcached_server = '127.0.0.1:11211'  
memcached_options = {
  :namespace => "my_sweet_app_#{RAILS_ENV}",
  :hash => :default
}
SESSION_CACHE = Memcached::Rails.new(memcached_server, memcached_options)
ActionController::Base.session_options[:cache] = SESSION_CACHE

memcached is up to 150x faster than memcache-client, and up to 15x faster than caffeine. See BENCHMARKS for details.

READ the docs at : http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/memcached

Auto_complete by default uses full text search to the database.

That can be very slow if you your database is big...

so, let use memcached instead.

. Make your Rails app faster with memcached. Part 1

In this article I describe how to make your application increase considerably in performance

Required Applications:

• 1. cache_fu (plugin)

./script/plugin discover ./script/plugin install cache_fu

• 1. memcache_client

gem install memcache_client

• 1. memcached

(http://www.danga.com/memcached)