permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/getting-try-redis-db-com-back-online" title: "Getting try.redis-db.com back online!" published_date: "2012-12-13 22:43:00 +0100" layout: post.liquid data: route: blog --- Hi there, You've been super busy with Try Redis today, and that's awesome. That's from an email I got a few minutes ago. It was from [alexmchale][], the maintainer of [try.redis][tryredis-git]. [try.redis][tryredis-git] is, as I know now, a really cool project. It offered a simple REPL and Step-by-Step-Tutorial similar to [tryhaskell](http://tryhaskell.org/), [tryruby](http://tryruby.org/) and other tryX sites. It was available on and hopefully will be online again in a few days. It went offline a few days ago (maybe longer) and since then several people asked on IRC (`#redis` on freenode) and twitter when it will be back. So today I wrote [a mail to the Redis-DB mailing list][redisml] with the intention to help, improve and maybe maintain the project. I quickly got answers from Alex and [antirez][]. Both are working on the hosting part right now. Meanwhile I sat down and quickly fixed [three][bug1] [open][bug2] [bugs][bug3] and looked through the others, which resulted in 2 more PRs closed (already applied) and about 4 issues to be closed soon. Next step, once open bugs are fixed, is to update the tutorial (some missing things like [hashes][bug4]) and improve the stability and quality of this project. It only took me a few minutes working on this, but it's nice how this little help can make the difference. Now it's your turn to get involved in an open-source project. try.redis needs some more help, too. [tryredis-git]: https://github.com/alexmchale/try.redis [redisml]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/redis-db/Qu30xvHBhWU [alexmchale]: https://github.com/alexmchale [antirez]: https://github.com/antirez [bug1]: https://github.com/alexmchale/try.redis/pull/15 [bug2]: https://github.com/alexmchale/try.redis/pull/16 [bug3]: https://github.com/alexmchale/try.redis/pull/17 [bug4]: https://github.com/alexmchale/try.redis/issues/13