Using Redis with Ruby on Rails

Jim Neath has written a brief tutorial about getting started with Redis and Ruby on Rails. Needless to say I believe the following quote sums up Jim's feeling about Redis

Redis is fucking awesome.

Key topics discussed in the tutorial include:

• Redis data types
• Redis installation and starting
• Using Redis with Rails, including user friendships and high score tables
• Using Redis as the Rails Cache Store
• Monitoring Redis, including connecting Redis to Unix sockets
• Redis-related gems, including the Resque library, the Vanity framework for Rails, the Ohm object library, the Rollout feature tester, and the Soulmate fast autocomplete generator

Read the entire article at: Using Redis with Ruby on Rails