Pushing Sessions to Redis w/ Nodejs and Express

server.js

/* See instructions below */

var express = require('express')
 ,  RedisStore   = require('connect-redis')(express);

var app = express.createServer();

app.configure(function(){
  this
   .use(express.cookieParser())
   .use(express.errorHandler({dumpException: true, showStack: true}))
   .use(express.session({ secret: 'p!550ff', store: new RedisStore({
     	cookie: {domain: '.localhost.domain.com'}
     ,	db: 1
   }) }))
});

app.get('/', function(req, res, next){
  req.session.testing = 'hello redis, how are you'
  res.send('ok');
});

app.listen(4000);
console.log('listening on port 4000');

/*

>> To install the above

   - Create server.js
   - Create package.json (See below)
   - Run npm install
   - Run node server.js
   - Connect to redis and run MONITOR (See below)
   - Run curl localhost 4000

>> To Test Redis:

  $telnet localhost 6379
   Trying 127.0.0.1...
   Connected to localhost.
   Escape character is '^]'.
  >MONITOR <enter>

>> Sample Package.json

{ "name": "redis-test"
, "version": "0.0.1"
, "dependencies":
  { "express"          : "2.3.2"
  , "connect-redis"    : "1.0.x"
  }
, "main": "./server.js"
, "engines": {
    "node": "0.4.x"
  , "npm" : "1.0.x"
  }
}

*/