An EventMachine based library for interacting with the very cool Redis data store by Salvatore ‘antirez’ Sanfilippo. Modeled after eventmachine’s implementation of the memcached protocol, and influenced by Ezra Zygmuntowicz’s redis-rb library (distributed as part of Redis).

This library is only useful when used as part of an application that relies on Event Machine’s event loop. It implements an EM-based client protocol, which leverages the non-blocking nature of the EM interface to achieve significant parallelization without threads.

Implements most Redis commands (see the list of available commands here with the notable exception of MONITOR.

Like any Deferrable eventmachine-based protocol implementation, using EM-Redis involves making calls and passing blocks that serve as callbacks when the call returns.

require 'em-redis'

EM.run do
  redis = EM::Protocols::Redis.connect
  redis.errback do |code|
    puts "Error code: #{code}"
  end
  redis.set "a", "foo" do |response|
    redis.get "a" do |response|
      puts response
    end
  end
  # We get pipelining for free
  redis.set("b", "bar")
  redis.get("a") do |response|
    puts response # will be foo
  end
end

To run tests on a Redis server (currently compatible with 1.3)

rake

Because the EM::Protocol::Memcached code used Bacon for testing, test code is currently in the form of bacon specs.

• Redis (download)

sudo gem install em-redis

(The MIT License)

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by Jonathan Broad (http://www.relativepath.org)