Where to find complete Redis documentation? ------------------------------------------- This README is just a fast "quick start" document. You can find more detailed documentation here: http://redis.io/documentation Building Redis -------------- It is as simple as: % make Redis is just a single binary, but if you want to install it you can use the "make install" target that will copy the binary to /usr/local/bin by default. You can also use "make PREFIX=/some/other/directory install" if you wish to use a different destination. You can run a 32 bit Redis binary using: % make 32bit After you build Redis is a good idea to test it (which require Tcl), using: % make test Running Redis ------------- To run Redis with the default configuration just type: % cd src % ./redis-server If you want to provide your redis.conf, you have to run it using an additional parameter (the path of the configuration file): % cd src % ./redis-server /path/to/redis.conf Playing with Redis ------------------ You can use redis-cli to play with Redis. Start a redis-server instance, then in another terminal try the following: % cd src % ./redis-cli redis> ping PONG redis> set foo bar OK redis> get foo "bar" redis> incr mycounter (integer) 1 redis> incr mycounter (integer) 2 redis> You can find the list of all the available commands here: http://redis.io/commands Enjoy!