haystack-redis

A Whoosh storage engine using redis for persistance. A Haystack SearchBackend subclass is also provided. Normally the STORAGE key could just be set but Haystack 2.0.0beta is only aware of file and ram backends.

This is especially useful for small sites hosted on Heroku, which does not allow writing to local disk. The REDISTOGO_URL environment variable is read, falling back to the localhost default port.

Code is based on maxpert’s snippet (see blog post)

Usage

Configure your Haystack connections in settings.py:

import tempfile
HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'haystack_redis.RedisEngine',
        'PATH': tempfile.gettempdir(),
    },
}

Installation

Currently some in-development features are still needed:

$ pip install -e git+https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py.git@master@egg=redis
$ pip install -e git+https://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack.git@master#egg=django-haystack
$ pip install -e git+https://github.com/jokull/haystack-redis.git@master#egg=haystack-redis