What is the best way to use Redis in a Multi-threaded Rails environment? (Puma / Sidekiq)

Question

I\'m using Redis in my application, both for Sidekiq queues, and for model caching.

What is the best way to have a Redis connection available to my models, consideri

Answer 1

You use a separate global connection pool for your application code. Put something like this in your redis.rb initializer:

require 'connection_pool'
REDIS = ConnectionPool.new(size: 10) { Redis.new }

Now in your application code anywhere, you can do this:

REDIS.with do |conn|
  # some redis operations
end

You'll have up to 10 connections to share amongst your puma/sidekiq workers. This will lead to better performance since, as you correctly note, you won't have all the threads fighting over a single Redis connection.

All of this is documented here: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Advanced-Options#connection-pooling