TypeError: Unsupported command argument type: Resque::Worker

I am using resque gem - (1.27.4)I upgraded my redis-rb gem to 5.0.6 from 3.3.5.

In my rails application, I initialize the Resque's redis instance as follows:

Resque.redis = Redis.new(creds)

Now I understand that in this version redis is using a redis-client gem:

    redis (5.0.6)      redis-client (>= 0.9.0)    redis-client (0.14.0)

And I understand that this is very strict about the datatype and has strict checks as follows:

case element  when String    element  when Integer, Float, Symbol    element.to_s  when Class    element.to_s  else    raise TypeError, "Unsupported command argument type: #{element}"  endend

My doubt is that - is there any workaround here, I don't want to upgrade the resque and I need this version of redis for reconnect attempts purposes.