Installing Redis on Mac OS

Installing Redis is really simple on a Mac OS. Follow these steps and you are good to go:

1. Download the package from Internet. For this, you can use the following command: wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.3.tar.gz

2. Untar the compressed tar xzf redis-2.8.3.tar.gz file.

3. This will create a folder; go to the folder by issuing the cd redis-2.8.3 command.

4. Compile the file by issuing the make command. This will compile the binaries and create a folder structure, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

   Folder structure for a Mac distribution

5. Type the src/redis-server command; this will start the server, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

   Starting the Redis server in the Apple environment

6. Your Redis server is running and it is ready to accept the requests in port 6379. Open another terminal and go the same folder form where you installed Redis. Type the command src/redis-client; this will start the client shell, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

   Redis client...