RedisBackedModel

Provides useful functions to objects that are backed by a Redis store instead of ActiveRecord.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'redis_backed_model'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install redis_backed_model

Usage

Subclass your models from RedisBackedModel::RedisBackedModel

  class Person < RedisBackedModel::RedisBackedModel
  end

When initializing a person, pass in a hash of attributes

  p = Person.new({:id => 2, :first_name => "Bill", :last_name => "Smith"})

RBM will create instance variables as needed

  p.instance_variables => [:@id, :@first_name, :@last_name]

You can use RBM to get Redis commands that will save your object as a hash

  p.to_redis => ["sadd|person_ids|2", "hset|person:2|id|2", "hset|person:2|first_name|Bill", "hset|person:2|last_name|Smith"]

If the value of a variable is nil, it is not included in the to_redis commands

  p = Person.new({:id => 2, :first_name => "Bill", :last_name => nil})
  p.to_redis => ["sadd|person_ids|2", "hset|person:2|id|2", "hset|person:2|first_name|Bill"]

You can parse the to_redis results and pass them to Redis yourself or use the gem 'redis_pipeline': https://github.com/SeniorServiceAmerica/redis_pipeline

Once your data is in Redis, you can use RBM to find and instantiate objects:

  p = Person.find(2) => #<Person:0x00000104023a00 @id=2, @first_name=Bill, @last_name=Smith>

You can also find multiple records:

  p = Person.find([1,2,3]) => [person,person,person]

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request