Greetings,

I want to tinker with the global memcache object, and I found the following problems.

1. Cache is a constant
2. Cache is a module

I only want to modify the behavior of Cache globally for a small section of code for a possible major performance gain.

Since Cache is a module, I can't re-assign it, or encapsulate it.

I Would Like To Do This:

Deep in a controller method...

code code code...

old_cache = Cache
Cache = MyCache.new

code code code...

Cache = old_cache

code code code...

However, since Cache is a constant I'm forbidden to change it. Threading is not an issue at the moment. :)

Would it be "good manners" for me to just alias_method the special code I need just for a small section of code and then later unalias it again? That doesn't pass the smell test IMHO.

Does anyone have any ideas?

TIA,

-daniel