start redis-server on appveyor

Question

I want to run some xUnit tests on AppVeyor that needs an available instance of redis. I didn't found Redis within the "Service" of AppVeyor so I end up with a custom solution, as you can see from the appveyor.yml

version: 1.0.{build}
before_build:
- nuget restore .\Hangfire.Redis.StackExchange.sln
- START .\packages\Redis-32.2.6.12.1\tools\redis-server.exe ".\packages\Redis-32.2.6.12.1\tools\redis.conf"
- '@ECHO Redis Started'
build:
  publish_nuget: true
  publish_nuget_symbols: true
  verbosity: minimal

unfortunately the build process stuck at START .\packages\Redis-32.2.6.12.1\tools\redis-server.exe ".\packages\Redis-32.2.6.12.1\tools\redis.conf"

any idea or possible workaround ?

Answer 1

For anyone interested, that's the appveyor.yml that did the trick. It basically download the release directly from github, unzip in a folder, install and start Redis as a service

version: 1.0.{build}
before_build:
- ps: >-
    Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/releases/download/win-2.8.17.4/redis-2.8.17.zip" -OutFile .\redis-2.8.17.zip;

    $destFolder = "redis-2.8.17";

    $shell = new-object -com shell.application;


    $zip = $shell.NameSpace("$pwd\redis-2.8.17.zip");

    if (Test-Path $pwd\$destFolder )

    {
        del $pwd\$destFolder -Force -Recurse
    }

    md ".\redis-2.8.17";

    foreach($item in $zip.items())

    {
        $shell.Namespace("$pwd\redis-2.8.17").copyhere($item);
    it kind of worked

    cd $destFolder

    .\redis-server.exe --service-install

    .\redis-server.exe --service-start

    cd ..
- nuget restore Hangfire.Redis.StackExchange.sln
build:
  publish_nuget: true
  publish_nuget_symbols: true
  verbosity: minimal