Ruby on Rails HTTP session storage with Redis: http://redis.io/ Install the following: Redis distribution: redis-2.2.11 Redis Ruby gem: redis (2.1.1) Make this change to your Ruby on Rails app: Copy redis_store.rb to the lib directory Copy error_helper.rb (from ../cassandra_store) to the app/models directory Edit the session store initialization file config/initializers/session_store.rb: require 'lib/redis_store' ActionController::Base.session_store = :redis_store Verify session storage is working: redis-cli redis> zcount concurrent -inf +inf or redis> keys *