From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2011-10-14T00:25:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40137] Re: Marshaling question

Not that this directly solves your problem, but you should know the
maintainer of memcache-client decided to throw it out and write it
again. https://github.com/mperham/dalli

Check the 'design' section. It's pretty compelling to switch.