"memcached" "libmemcached" gem installation for rails app

It's been so hectic with the installations on ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install memcached

then I realised that "libmemcached" also needed. Got the latest tar http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html and installed.

then went on to install the "memcached" gem.

Unfortunately, this did not go as expected but raised lots of issues!

rlibmemcached_wrap.c: In function ‘_wrap_MemcachedSt_next_distribution_rebuild_set’:
rlibmemcached_wrap.c:5835: error: ‘struct memcached_st’ has no member named ‘next_distribution_rebuild’
rlibmemcached_wrap.c: In function ‘_wrap_MemcachedSt_next_distribution_rebuild_get’:
rlibmemcached_wrap.c:5858: error: ‘struct memcached_st’ has no member named ‘next_distribution_rebuild’
rlibmemcached_wrap.c: In function ‘Init_rlibmemcached’:
rlibmemcached_wrap.c:11380: error: ‘MEMCACHED_SERVER_MARKED_DEAD’ undeclared (first use in this function)
rlibmemcached_wrap.c:11380: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
rlibmemcached_wrap.c:11380: error: for each function it appears in.)
rlibmemcached_wrap.c:11411: error: ‘MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_AUTO_EJECT_HOSTS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [rlibmemcached_wrap.o] Error 1

After googling across and friends suggestions, could solve the problem. The problem seems to be with the latest versions of the libmemcached and also gem memcached. I cleaned up the mess and repeated the trial with the following combination.

RubyInline(3.8.1);
memcache-client (1.6.3);
memcached (0.13);
libmemcached (0.25.14);

and things are back to normal :)
Hope this would save somebody's time!

References:

http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=31257&forum_id=20894
http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/01/24/secret-codes/