Memached failing in 2.1 - not loading classes

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Hi everyone,

We're setting up memcached with Rails 2.1 and we're hitting an error with some classes. For instance:

Rails.cache.fetch('all_categories') {Category.all} ArgumentError: undefined class/module Category         from /opt/ruby-ee/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/vendor/memcache-client-1.5.0/memcache.rb:241:in `load'         from /opt/ruby-ee/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/vendor/memcache-client-1.5.0/memcache.rb:241:in `get'         from /opt/ruby-ee/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/cache/mem_cache_store.rb:26:in `read'         from /opt/ruby-ee/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/cache.rb:55:in `fetch'         from (irb):1

If I drop into the debugger, the error comes up on line 214 in memcache.rb:

value = Marshal.load value unless raw

When it's loading the data, it can't figure out what Category is. It's a normal model. Why isn't it loaded at this point in the app?

Thanks,

Sean

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Sent too soon. Wanted to add that if I run the cache call and watch it fail (and it'll fail over and over again), then just call:

Category

And then run the call again, it works.

Also, there are other models where this seems to work ok. I can't find the difference except that perhaps those models are being called somewhere in the stack before the cache call is made.

Thanks,

Sean