hitchredis 0.3

HitchRedis

HitchRedis is a plugin for the Hitch testing framework that lets you run and interact with Redis during your integration tests.

Use with Hitch

Install like so:

$ hitch install hitchredis

# Service definition in engine's setUp:
self.services['Redis'] = hitchredis.RedisService(
    version="2.8.4"                                     # Mandatory
    redis_exec="redis-server",                          # Optional (default: redis-server)
    redis_cli="redis-cli",                              # Optional (default: redis-cli)
    port=16379,                                         # Optional (default: 16379)
)

# Interact using the cli:
self.services['Redis'].cli("-n", "1", "get", "mypasswd").run()
[ prints mypasswd ]

See this service in action at the DjangoRemindMe project.

Features

• Starts up on a separate thread in parallel with other services when running with HitchServe, so that your integration tests run faster.

• Contains subcommand to interact with the CLI.

• Run the server on whichever port you like.

• Version must be set explicitly to prevent “works on my machine” screw ups caused by different versions of Redis being installed.