RAM Resources

Use Redis as a virtual file storage

Lucee has the concept and feature of virtual file systems. Our extension taps into it by allowing you to leverage the ram:// resource to talk to Redis for storing documents and treating Redis like a big file system. This means that any file or directory related tag/function can work with a Redis RAM resource like: fileRead(), fileWrite(), fileDelete(), directoryNew(), directoryList(), include, etc. It even works when defining application mappings. You can define Redis to be the default cache for resources by selecting the default element in the cache details page and pointing it to resource.

Important: Please note that Lucee only allows you to determine 1 cache connection to be the default for either object, template, query, resource or function caching. You might end up creating different cache connections if you want to leverage them as default cache locations.

Once you setup Redis to be your default resource cache you can leverage it in many ways:

// Create a mapping to it
this.mappings[ "/cluster-fs" ] = "ram://";


// Do some file operations
fileWrite( "/cluster-fs/suzi.txt", myContent );
include template="/cluster-fs/aop.cfm";
directoryList( "/cluster-fs/caches" );