Valkey GLIDE Ruby v0.9.0 — Developer Preview

We're excited to announce the first developer preview release of Valkey GLIDE for Ruby (valkey-glide-rb).

What is Valkey GLIDE Ruby?

Valkey GLIDE Ruby is the official Ruby client for Valkey, built on the same high-performance Rust core as the Python, Java, Node.js, and Go GLIDE clients. It provides a redis-rb compatible API while delivering GLIDE's reliability and performance.

Features

High-performance Rust core — Same battle-tested valkey-glide FFI layer as other GLIDE clients
redis-rb compatible API — Familiar Valkey.new, command methods, pipelined, URL parsing
Standalone and Cluster mode support
TLS/SSL connections with certificate configuration
Native OpenTelemetry tracing and metrics (configured in Rust core)
Client statistics for monitoring connections and operations
Comprehensive command coverage:
- Strings, Hashes, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Streams
- Transactions (MULTI/EXEC) and Pipelining
- Lua scripting (EVAL, EVALSHA)
- Cluster commands
- JSON commands (RedisJSON/Valkey JSON module)
- Vector search commands (RediSearch module)
- PubSub (publish, pubsub_channels, etc.)
- ACL commands