Redis library for Lua

Features

• Optionally asynchronous
• Compatible with Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and LuaJIT
• Subscribe (PubSub) mode
• Automatic pipelining (if you use more than one coroutine)

Status

This project is a work in progress and not ready for production use.

Dependencies

• cqueues >= 20150907
• fifo

For running tests

• luacheck
• busted
• luacov

Development

Getting started

• Clone the repo:

  $ git clone https://github.com/daurnimator/lredis.git
  $ cd lredis
  

• Install dependencies

  $ luarocks install --only-deps lredis-scm-0.rockspec
  

• Lint the code (check for common programming errors)

  $ luacheck .
  

• Run tests and view coverage report (install tools first)

  $ busted -c
  $ luacov && less luacov.report.out
  

• Install your local copy:

  $ luarocks make lredis-scm-0.rockspec