From: Marcin Raczkowski Date: 2008-02-15T07:40:40+09:00 Subject: Re: Memcached: Dealing with unknown keys WEll. There are libraries ready to do exactly what you want. I dunno why you try to reinvite the well that so many people did before you. anyway check out ruby-talk archive some days ago someone created library to crate message queue using memcache - not that i think it's good idea - there are much better solutions - or even tuplespace which is in stdlib doing just that. anyway have phun