Script to install redis inside virtualenv. Adds a wrapper script redis-server-ve. Downloads stable version by default. Else you can pass the version as an argument.

install-redis-virtualenv

#!/bin/bash

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# AUTHOR: Viraj Kanwade                #
# http://viraj-workstuff.blogspot.com/ #
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# Inspired from https://gist.github.com/pterk/3923177

set -e
# set -x

VERSION=$1

if [ -z $VERSION ]
then
  VERSION=stable
fi

ARCHIVE=redis-${VERSION}.tar.gz
REDIS_BASE_URL=http://download.redis.io/releases/

if [ -z "${VIRTUAL_ENV}" ]
then
  echo "Please activate a virtualenv first"
  exit 1
fi

pushd /tmp/
if [ ! -f $ARCHIVE ]
then
  {
    wget ${REDIS_BASE_URL}${ARCHIVE}
  } || {
    curl ${REDIS_BASE_URL}${ARCHIVE} -o $ARCHIVE
  } || {
    echo 'Could not find wget or curl'
    exit 1
  }
fi
DIRNAME=`tar tzf ${ARCHIVE} 2>/dev/null | head -n 1`
tar xzf ${ARCHIVE}
pushd ${DIRNAME}

make PREFIX=${VIRTUAL_ENV}
make PREFIX=${VIRTUAL_ENV} install
mkdir -p ${VIRTUAL_ENV}/etc/
mkdir -p ${VIRTUAL_ENV}/var/run/

# sed -i 's/daemonize no/daemonize yes/' redis.conf

VIRTUAL_ENV_ESC="${VIRTUAL_ENV//\//\\/}"
sed -i '' "s/\/var\/run/${VIRTUAL_ENV_ESC}\/var\/run/" redis.conf
sed -i '' "s/dir \.\//dir ${VIRTUAL_ENV_ESC}\/var\/run\//" redis.conf
cp redis.conf ${VIRTUAL_ENV}/etc/

echo "set -x
redis-server ${VIRTUAL_ENV}/etc/redis.conf" > ${VIRTUAL_ENV}/bin/redis-server-ve
chmod +x ${VIRTUAL_ENV}/bin/redis-server-ve

popd
popd