Rails + Dalli memcache gem: DalliError: No server available

dalli, memcached, ruby-on-rails

Solution

I had the same problem. First I installed memcached as a gem `gem install memcached` and got the error "DalliError: No server available"

Then I installed memcached by doing `sudo apt-get install memcached`. It works fine now.

Problem

Hi I'm having trouble setting up my Rails project on my server because apache keeps complaining `DalliError: No server available`. I installed `memcached` on my ubuntu machine, but it still doesn't work. My rails project also has `config.cache_store = :dalli_store, 'localhost:11211', { :namespace => "production" }` in environments/production.rb. How would I debug this? My log shows before each request: ``` localhost:11211 failed (count: 6) DalliError: No server available ``` telnet to 11211: ``` root@s2:/usr/local/www/production/current/log# telnet localhost 11211 Trying 127.0.1.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused ```

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