Installing libmemcached and the memcached gem on Leopard
16 Feb 2009
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What a huge pain in the ass.I just spent hours trying to get every combination of these two to work together and nothing worked. A handful of versions of libmemcached had no problems installing – .24, .25 and .26 were all easy to install, both from source and from macports. However, getting the memcached gem to install proved to be way way more difficult.I tried with a myriad of options – the most promising piece of information looked to be from this gentleman’s website – but also proved fruitless.The final solution, after a LOT of googling and clicking around the rubygem forums – this post at Evan Weaver’s blog. The libmemcached-0.25.14.tar.gz and memcached-0.13.gem tarball and gem, respectively, installed easily without any problems. After downloading all I had to run was:
tar -xzvf libmemcached-0.25.14.tar.gz cd libmemcached-0.25.14 ./configure && make && sudo make install cd .. sudo gem install memcached --no-rdoc --no-ri
Done.Finally.Update: There seems to be a few issues with the gem I link to being installed correctly in Snow Leopard. After spending too much time trying to figure out why the gem wouldn’t install, I installed the current memcached gem (from gemcutter) on a whim – and it compiled, and worked, without a problem instantly. So, if you’re running Snow Leopard and looking to install the memcached gem, try out the latest version first.One caveat – I’m still using the memcached server I linked to above, version 0.25.14, still from Evan Weaver’s site
