RedisUiRails

A Rails engine for inspecting your Redis instances through a web UI.

Built for teams that cannot easily use more direct access methods (e.g. console) to inspect their Redis instances.

Installation

1. Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'redis_ui_rails'

2. In config/routes.rb, mount the engine

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  mount RedisUiRails::Engine => "/redis_ui"
end

3. Precompile your assets

cd path/to/your/rails/app/root
bundle exec rake assets:precompile

4. Configure your engine.

Example:

# config/initializers/redis_ui_rail.rb

# Each Redis "instance" is a hash, with the following symbolized key structure:
#   :id (required) The ID used in the URL for this instance.
#   :name (required) The name that differentiates this Redis instance from others.
#   :url (required) The URL of the redis instance.
#   :resource_links (optional) Quick links to resources related to this instance.
#   :enabled (optional) Allows enabling per environment. Defaults to true.
#
RedisUiRails.configure do |config|
  config.redis_instances = [
    {
      id: :local,
      name: "Local Queue and Cache", # many apps share a queue and cache Redis locally
      url: ENV["REDIS_URL"],
      enabled: Rails.env.development? || Rails.env.test?
    },
    {
      id: :cache,
      name: "Cache",
      url: ENV.fetch("REDIS_CACHE_URL"), # many apps have separate queue and cache Redis instances in production
      resource_links: [
        {
          label: "Custom Datadog Dashboard",
          url: "https://myorg.datadoghq.com/path/to/your/dashhboard"
        }
      ],
      enabled: Rails.env.production?
    }
  ]
end

Local Development

1. Requirements:

• Ruby >= 3.0
• Direnv (don't forget your rc file hook)

2. Initial setup

bundle install
cp .rspec.example .rspec
cp .env.example .env
direnv allow

3. Run tests

bundle exec rspec spec

Contributing

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