Chapter 5. Clients for Your Favorite Language (Become a Redis Polyglot)

So far in this book, we have used two Redis clients: redis-cli and node_redis.

Redis has client libraries for pretty much all the popular programming languages, and this chapter covers other Redis client libraries for PHP, Python, and Ruby.

This chapter does not provide explanations about each languages' syntax. Its main goal is to give you a better understanding of how clients in other languages work. Unlike the Node.js client used in the previous chapters, the chosen clients for PHP, Python, and Ruby are synchronous and do not require a callback function.

Most clients have a very straightforward interface to execute most of Redis commands. As long as you know how to execute a command using redis-cli or node_redis, there are high chances that you know how to use other clients in your favorite language.

This chapter will show how to use blocking commands, transactions, pipelines, and scripting. These commands...