I’ve just released a new RubyGem which makes caching objects (and allowing them to expire) in Redis easy. It’s called reserve and the source is on GitHub. This came from a desire to easily wrap common but slow tasks in a block that would give me the advantages of caching but not increase the code complexity significantly. We can do this by assuming that the output of most operations could be serialised as JSON and then be thrown into a Redis instance. That means that the simplest implemen...
