really removed the need for pylibmc this time

localrequirements.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Django==1.4.1
 South==0.7.6
 argparse==1.2.1
 dj-database-url==0.2.1
-django-heroku-memcacheify==0.3
 django-social-auth==0.7.4
 httplib2==0.7.4
 oauth2==1.5.211

requirements.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 django-pylibmc-sasl==0.2.4
 gunicorn==0.14.6
+django-heroku-memcacheify==0.3
 pylibmc==1.2.3
 -r localrequirements.txt

settings.py

@@ -91,9 +91,16 @@ assert 'GITHUB_APP_SECRET' in os.environ, "Set GITHUB_APP_SECRET in your .env fi
 GITHUB_APP_ID = os.environ['GITHUB_APP_ID']
 GITHUB_API_SECRET = os.environ['GITHUB_APP_SECRET']
 
-from memcacheify import memcacheify
+try:
-
+    from memcacheify import memcacheify
-CACHES = memcacheify()
+    CACHES = memcacheify()
+except ImportError:
+    CACHES = {
+        'default': {
+            'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
+            'LOCATION': 'not-so-unique-snowflake',
+        }
+    }
 
 import dj_database_url