Memcache statistics from the command line

To help debug memcache issues it's really useful to be able to see the output of the stats command. I got bored of using telnet to talk to the memcache daemon so I whipped up this simple Ruby script to spit out the statistics without all that fuss.

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

require 'socket'

socket = TCPSocket.open('localhost', '11211')
socket.send("stats\r\n", 0)

statistics = []
loop do
  data = socket.recv(4096)
  if !data || data.length == 0
    break
  end
  statistics << data
  if statistics.join.split(/\n/)[-1] =~ /END/
    break
  end
end

puts statistics.join()
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Craig
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2009-03-04
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