Hey list,
I’ve just released a new project called Boogaloo. It’s a simple cache
server
that provides persistent and temporary caching, you can also use it to
house
your own custom services.
The main release announcement is over on ruby-talk (sorry for those
reading
this twice). I’m posting it here too as although Boogaloo isn’t specific
to
Rails, I did create it out of the needs of my own Rails application.
With Boogaloo you can very easily (and quickly!) get a cache up and
running
for your web nodes to share (no more caches on each node – not that you
were doing that anyway, right?). It’s also very handy place to put
objects
that you may need between requests, such as a multi-step form or wizard
type
thingy (no more putting them in the session). Simply provide Boogaloo
with
an expiration time along with your object and let it perform the cleanup
when the time comes. Simple.
http://boogaloo.rubyforge.org/
Cheers,
Ian.