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# Redlock - A ruby distributed lock using redis.
> Distributed locks are a very useful primitive in many environments where different processes require to operate with shared resources in a mutually exclusive way.
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> There are a number of libraries and blog posts describing how to implement a DLM (Distributed Lock Manager) with Redis, but every library uses a different approach, and many use a simple approach with lower guarantees compared to what can be achieved with slightly more complex designs.
This is an implementation of a proposed [distributed lock algorithm with Redis](http://redis.io/topics/distlock). It started as a fork from [antirez implementation.](https://github.com/antirez/redlock-rb)
## Installation
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## Run tests
-Make sure you have at least 3 redis instances `redis-server --port 777[7-9]`
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$ rspec
## Contributing