Monkey-patch String#byteslice in Ruby 1.8,7

Author: badboy

lib/redis/connection/ruby.rb

@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@
   # Not all systems have OpenSSL support
 end
 
+if RUBY_VERSION < "1.9.3"
+  class String
+    # Ruby 1.8.7 does not have byteslice, but it handles encodings differently anyway.
+    # We can simply slice the string, which is a byte array there.
+    def byteslice(*args)
+      slice(*args)
+    end
+  end
+end
+
 class Redis
   module Connection
     module SocketMixin