Question

I have installed Redis via gems, but am having a problem getting it started.

Following James Edward Gary II steps http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/setting_up_the_redis_server/

I have:

$ sudo gem install ezmobius-redis

Password:
Successfully installed ezmobius-redis-0.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for ezmobius-redis-0.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for ezmobius-redis-0.1...

$ redis-server path/to/redis.conf

-bash: redis-server: command not found

Any thoughts as to what I am missing?

Answer 1

If you have done just what you have described in your question, then you are missing redis. ezmobius-redis is just a Ruby library that allows connecting to redis. redis itself is a separate piece of software running independently.

If you followed the article you linked and if you especially did this:

curl -O http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-1.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf redis-1.0.tar.gz 
cd redis-1.0
make
sudo cp redis-server redis-cli redis-benchmark /usr/local/bin

then you have actually installed a very old version of redis into the /usr/local directory.

If you did this starting the server did not work, then you probably have /usr/local not in your PATH. You can start the server using:

$ /usr/local/bin/redis-server path/to/redis.conf

However, I would suggest to install the newest version of redis. To do that on OSX you should use homebrew:
– Read this (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation) as a guide on how to install homebrew and then do a

brew install redis

to install the newest version of redis.