I did some performance testing from heroku to memcachier and redis-cloud to check the iterations per second. Here is how I did it, based on the work that @nateberkopec did:
From heroku run bash -r production run the following:
gem install benchmark-ips --no-doc --no-ri
gem install redis-activesupport --no-doc --no-ri
# the other gems are already installed because they're included in our app's gemfile, but you may need:
# gem install dalli --no-doc --no-ri
# gem install rails --no-doc --no-ri