Rails Sidekiq - not connecting to Redis

Question

Iam trying to test sidekiq and set it up as explained in the "getting started" tutorial

Unfortunately i get the following error message when trying to start sidekiq via bundle exec sidekiq

    2018-12-12T13:19:17.721Z 25023 TID-9r9if INFO: Running in ruby 2.4.1p111 (2017-03-22 revision 58053) [x86_64-linux]
2018-12-12T13:19:17.721Z 25023 TID-9r9if INFO: See LICENSE and the LGPL-3.0 for licensing details.
2018-12-12T13:19:17.721Z 25023 TID-9r9if INFO: Upgrade to Sidekiq Pro for more features and support: http://sidekiq.org
2018-12-12T13:19:17.721Z 25023 TID-9r9if INFO: Booting Sidekiq 5.2.3 with redis options {:id=>"Sidekiq-server-PID-25023", :url=>nil}
**Error connecting to Redis on 127.0.0.1:6379 (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)**

I did not setup redis, since i was expecting that sidekiq brings everything it needs. Furthermore the tutorials dont talk about this...

Any idea ?

Answer 1

You need to setup redis, running on your local pc. (and production environments)

https://redis.io/topics/quickstart

For MacOS (Brew)

$ brew install redis

And available both as brew service or via $ redis-server startup.

For Ubuntu/Debian

$ sudo apt install redis-server