# Memcache-client - how to start server on development

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memcache-client-how-to-start-server-on-development/115491>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 25, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memcache-client-how-to-start-server-on-development/115491 "2007-09-25T18:59:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericgoodwin)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memcache-client-how-to-start-server-on-development/115491/1 "2007-09-25T18:59:50Z")

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I’ve been trying to start the memcache-client server on my development  
box, but haven’t been able to figure out how to do this.

It defaults to using “localhost:11211,” but there is nothing running on  
that port.

The rDoc for memcache-client just says to run:

CACHE = MemCache.new ‘localhost:11211’

but that doesnt actually start a memcache server on port 11211. How do I  
get a memcache server running on port 11211 so that MemCache can connect  
to it?

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**Author:** ![ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericgoodwin)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memcache-client-how-to-start-server-on-development/115491/2 "2007-09-26T00:00:36Z")

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That is merely a memcache client for ruby. You have to run the actual  
memcache server, memcached. See below for more information.

> **[memcached - a distributed memory object caching system](http://memcached.org/)**
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> memcached

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**Author:** ![ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericgoodwin)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memcache-client-how-to-start-server-on-development/115491/3 "2007-09-26T05:06:04Z")

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hi, thanks for the response, yeah I realized that after many hours…doh!

Anyways, I ended up having to get the memcache server for windows.  
Thanks for the response, nonetheless.