Hi list I use Redis heavily in my application, and perform all of my unit testing using RSpec. So very often during my tests, I am hitting Redis repeatedly.
I find that Redis repeatedly returns inconsistent and unexpected values for keys in my test environment. So every time I run a suite of specs, a few of them fail, seemingly randomly. The specs are usually very simple, and often just testing the contents of simple string keys in Redis. The results *seem* like they might come from a different object or instance variable of the same type/name: so they're always seemingly valid values, but don't actually relate to the spec currently being performed. So the spec fails. This is really reducing the value of my tests, because I can never tell if they're really failing or not without digging into them. I've tried all sorts of things to fix this so far, including setting the :thread_safe option for Redis in my test environment (no difference), and forcing a reconnection to Redis before each suite of specs (no difference). I'm pretty sure this is a problem with the connection between RSpec and Redis, or some kind of threading issue, but I can't be 100% sure even of that. I'm at a little bit of a loss. Anybody experienced anything similar?
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