require 'redis' r = Redis.new r.select(9) r.del("myset"); r.sadd("myset",(0..999).to_a) freq = {} 500.times { res = r.pipelined { 1000.times { r.srandmember("myset") } } res.each{|ele| freq[ele] = 0 if freq[ele] == nil freq[ele] += 1 } } # Print the frequency each element was yeld to process it with gnuplot freq.each{|item,count| puts "#{item} #{count}" }