@MatthewSuttles thanks for the solution, I think a better approach may be to just have a script that checks to make sure redis is running and if not start it up before running the tests. This will prevent the overhead of having to install redis each time.
For example, you can have a script called wait-for-redis.sh
until bash -c "sudo service redis-server status"; do
>&2 echo "Redis not running, trying to kick start it"
bash -c "sudo service redis-server start"
sleep 1
done
Best,
Lev