Redis site now implements interactive examples with embedded live Redis cli

antirez 15y ago ↗

Thanks to Pieter Noordhuis (that started from the work of Alex McHale in try.redis-db.com) for implementing this awesome thing.

I hope other sites will follow this approach of a "live" documentation where the user can type commands. This makes a lot of sense for dynamic programming languages as well.

nestlequ1k 15y ago ↗

amazing! thanks for that. curious, how is this implemented on the server? seems like each command is posted to /session/ url.

pietern 15y ago ↗

All keys are namespaced to a unique session identifier, so parallel sessions are isolated. You can check out the code for the interactive stuff here: https://github.com/antirez/redis-io/tree/master/lib/interact...

true_religion 15y ago ↗

It's a bit more difficult with programming languages where you can thrash the server its hosted on with simple commands.

Redis on the otherhand is designed for exactly this kind of insane throughput.

On another note, I'm loving that you are putting the time complexity of the commands right on the page.

jcromartie 15y ago ↗

This is really incredible. I am showing this to people and they don't quite believe it. They think it's some kind of simulator or JavaScript trick.

[dead] sitmack 15y ago ↗

This is so believably amazing!

magicseth 15y ago ↗

I just ran "MGET key1" and it returned "FOOBAR". Has this happened to anyone else?

pietern 15y ago ↗

Sorry about that, just deployed a fix to make it less likely for session identifiers to collide. Shouldn't happen again.

Redis site now implements interactive examples with embedded live Redis cli (redis.io)

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