Using Redis in Rails Applications
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store known for its speed and flexibility. It serves as a high-performance database, cache, and message broker, offering various data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets. In Rails applications, Redis is widely used for caching, session storage, background job processing, real-time analytics, and more. This article provides an introduction to Redis and its applications in Rails, along with a step-by-step installation guide for integrating Redis with a Rails application using the redis-rails gem.