Tutorial

This tutorial covers getting started with split on a Rails 3.0 app.

Installation

First lets create our rails app:

$ gem install rails
$ rails new split-example
$ cd split-example

We'll also need redis installed on for split to store its data.

If you are on a mac, you can install redis using homebrew:

$ brew install redis

And then follow the instructions.

If you are on ubuntu or debian you can install redis using apt-get:

$ sudo apt-get install redis-server

Otherwise you can compile it from source using he instructions on the redis.io website: http://redis.io/download

Note: redis is not officially supported on windows

Then we need to add split as a dependency, so we add the following to our Gemfile:

gem 'split'

Then update your bundle with:

$ bundle install