For the Firefox Add-ons we’ve been using redis here and there mostly for cache, but lately for a few things we’d love to persist.
Unfortunately relying on redis does mean we need to be able to test it. Since
redis touches some of our core components of the site, we can’t just raise a
SkipTest like we would for Sphinx search related tests. I also don’t want to
rely on our developers to have redis installed in order to run the
test-suite.
So I built a simple Mock Redis client. It’s part of our
redisutils.py that handles connections to redis. If a test’s setUp method
calls mock_redis you’ll get this phony object that can do a few minimal
redis-like operations.
It works great for our specific cases, but feel free to fork it and make it better.
Note: This MockRedis is specifically designed to work with django.