Hi, I am writing an app using ruby on rails and am questioning if memcached is an appropriate solution. I have a geography app that allows a user to input anything related to geography like a city name, river, or country. I parse different sources to return this information such as wikipedia and this becomes very expensive. What I would like to do is pre-cache everything. Right now, I am running a rake task that takes a txt file that has every keyword possible, pings wikipedia or wherever, then parses it, and then returns the data in an array and caches it into memcached.
Does memcached seem like a good solution? My other concern is that I am running this rake and loading the cache on my local server with the hope of copying this cache to my server on the cloud. Is this possible? Any help is appreciated.
