Integrate Redis on Laravel 5.2

In this tutorial i am going to write basic steps to integrate Redis with laravel 5.2 

Steps

First

Install Redis server on your system.

I am using  Ubuntu 14.04. Following commands will setup Redis Server on your machine.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/redis-server

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install redis-server

Now start Redis server using following command

sudo service redis-server start

If everything is okay, you'll see this message on Terminal

Starting redis-server: redis-server

For windows user, you can find details about installation in here After successfully installing Redis server on your system, now we have to integrate it with Laravel 5.2 project.
To do that, we need to install predis/predis package  via composer.
Go to your project directory and from terminal run this command

composer require predis/predis

After installing predis/predis package via composer, we have to configure it.
Now open .env file in a text editor and add following line at the buttom.

#CACHE_DRIVER=redis
#SESSION_DRIVER=redis
CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file
QUEUE_DRIVER=sync

REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null
REDIS_PORT=6379

You can change it depending on your system's environment.
Now our integration is done and it's time to test it.

To test it, go to routes.php file and add following line

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis;

Now add following line

Route::get('redis/test',function(){
    $redis = Redis::connection();    
$views=$redis->incr('view');
    dd($views);});

Now run following command on terminal:

sudo service redis-server start

php artisan serve

After starting project, open your browser and browse

localhost:8000/redis/test

Now you'll notice , every time you browse this url, value showing on browser always incremented by one.