Installation and Setup

The easiest way to install Redis is to use Brew. First, install Brew.

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Then we can install Redis.

brew install brew

Check whether the Redis is running on you system as a service.

brew services list

If not, start it up like this.

brew services start redis

Once Redis is started, it is available on port 6379. Default configuration is used and it is located in this file /usr/local/etc/redis.conf.

Connect

First check if Redis is running. If we send PING, we should receive PONG from Redis server.

redis-cli -h localhost -p 6379 PING