Use Redis Ruby client instead of shelling out to redis-cli

Closes gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#17329

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/gitlab_net.rb b/lib/gitlab_net.rb
index 8b6d33b..8e1fe39 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab_net.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab_net.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require 'net/http'
 require 'openssl'
 require 'json'
+require 'redis'
 
 require_relative 'gitlab_config'
 require_relative 'gitlab_logger'
@@ -63,6 +64,24 @@ class GitlabNet
     nil
   end
 
+  def redis_client
+    redis_config = config.redis
+    database = redis_config['database'] || 0
+    params = {
+      host: redis_config['host'] || '127.0.0.1',
+      port: redis_config['port'] || 6379,
+      db: database
+    }
+
+    if redis_config.has_key?("socket")
+      params = { path: redis_config['socket'], db: database }
+    elsif redis_config.has_key?("pass")
+      params[:password] = redis_config['pass']
+    end
+
+    Redis.new(params)
+  end
+
   protected
 
   def config