bin/configure fails with error: "You don't have Redis installed." Even though Redis is installed and running

[StandardNerd]

On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS following the Quickstart Guide:

git clone [email protected]:bullet-train-co/bullet_train.git foo && cd foo

❯ bin/configure

Successfully installed colorize-1.1.0
1 gem installed


Successfully installed activesupport-7.1.3
1 gem installed

Bullet Train requires Ruby 3.3.0 and `ruby -v` returns ruby 3.3.0 (2023-12-25 revision 5124f9ac75) [x86_64-linux].
You don't have Homebrew installed. This isn't necessarily a problem, you might not even be on macOS, but we can't check your dependencies without it.
Try proceeding without Homebrew? [y/n]
y
You have PostgreSQL 14 installed.
You don't have Redis installed. Please see the installation instructions at https://redis.io/docs/getting-started/installation/install-redis-on-linux/ .

systemclt shows redis as active (running) and redis-cli is working:

❯ redis-cli ping
PONG

But Bullet Train insists that redis is not installed. How to fix that?

[gazayas]

Interesting, do you have redis-server installed? As far as I can tell I believe we require it for Bullet Train, and if redis-server is not on your system we should update bin/configure to be more specific.

[StandardNerd]

Hi @gazayas ,

yes redis-server is installed (using apt install redis-server) and running.

❯ sudo systemctl status redis.service
● redis-server.service - Advanced key-value store
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/redis-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2024-02-14 08:30:54 CET; 3h 1min ago
       Docs: http://redis.io/documentation,
             man:redis-server(1)
   Main PID: 764 (redis-server)
     Status: "Ready to accept connections"
      Tasks: 5 (limit: 18777)
     Memory: 5.4M
        CPU: 24.619s
     CGroup: /system.slice/redis-server.service
             └─764 "/usr/bin/redis-server 127.0.0.1:6379" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""

Feb 14 08:30:53 pop-os systemd[1]: Starting Advanced key-value store...
Feb 14 08:30:54 pop-os systemd[1]: Started Advanced key-value store.

❯ bin/configure

Successfully installed colorize-1.1.0
1 gem installed


Successfully installed activesupport-7.1.3
1 gem installed

Bullet Train requires Ruby 3.3.0 and `ruby -v` returns ruby 3.3.0 (2023-12-25 revision 5124f9ac75) [x86_64-linux].
You don't have Homebrew installed. This isn't necessarily a problem, you might not even be on macOS, but we can't check your dependencies without it.
Try proceeding without Homebrew? [y/n]
y
You have PostgreSQL 14 installed.
You don't have Redis installed. Please see the installation instructions at https://redis.io/docs/getting-started/installation/install-redis-on-linux/ .

[gazayas]

@StandardNerd Got it, thank you for the detailed reply. I'm thinking it has to do with how we gather the system package information, I'll try to submit a PR for this one soon.

[StandardNerd]

@gazayas Thank you very much for your commitment and the work you put into the project. That is great, keep on rocking!