[ShaneOG]

What did you replace redis-rb with, if you don't mind me asking?

[nirvdrum]

In this case we first moved to JRuby (after verifying a similar performance profile to MRI) and once on JRuby we used jedis [1]. I simplified the tale a bit -- apologies if I got your hopes up on MRI.

[1] -- https://github.com/xetorthio/jedis