Installing and working with Redis on OSX and Ubuntu

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OSX
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- Install redis via homebrew
homebrew install redis

- Tap services to start/stop services
brew tap homebrew/services

- Start, stop or restart redis
brew services [start/stop/restart] redis

- Additionally, redis can be started and stopped like this
sudo launchctl start io.redis.redis-server
sudo launchctl stop io.redis.redis-server

- Alias for those commands (.bash_profile)
alias redisstart='sudo launchctl start io.redis.redis-server'
alias redisstop='sudo launchctl stop io.redis.redis-server'

- Start or stop redis using those commands/alias
redisstart 
redisstop

- Configuring a password
1. Edit file /usr/local/etc/redis.conf
2. Uncomment line (396 app): #requirepass somepassword
3. Change somepassword to something else
4. Restart redis: brew services restart redis

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Ubuntu
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- Pre-install step
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc make build-essential tcl8.5

- Installing steps
1. Download the latest stable release of Redis: wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-stable.tar.gz
2. Untar it: tar xzf redis-stable.tar.gz
3. Go into the directory: cd redis-stable
4. Run the "make" command: make
5. Run the recommended test: make test
6. Finally, finish by making the install: make install

- Post-install
Redis comes with a script that enables it to run in the background.

1. Navigate into the "utils" folder: cd utils
2. Run the script: sudo ./install_server.sh

- Start and stop
sudo service redis_6379 start
sudo service redis_6379 stop

- Redis command line tool
redis-cli