Connect to a redisToGo instance (Heroku or Nodejitsu

connection.js

// To get a Redis URL provided by Nodejitsu run the following in your terminal:
// $ jitsu databases create redis [name_of_database]
//
// This will output a message with your new Redis' instance URL. Copy/Paste it below:

var REDIS_URL = process.env.REDISTOGO_URL // REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR URL PROVIDED BY THE JITSU CLI

var Resourceful = require('resourceful-redis')
  , url = require('url');
// A function helper to connect to redis using Heroku's redis url
var connect = function(redis_url) {
  var password, database;
  var parsed_url  = url.parse(redis_url || process.env.REDISTOGO_URL || REDIS_URL || 'redis://localhost:6379');
  var parsed_auth = (parsed_url.auth || '').split(':');

  var redis = require('redis').createClient(parsed_url.port, parsed_url.hostname);

  if (password = parsed_auth[1]) {
    redis.auth(password, function(err) {
      if (err) throw err;
    });
  }
  // Select the right database
  if (database = parsed_auth[0]) {
    redis.select(database);
    redis.on('connect', function() {
      redis.send_anyways = true
      redis.select(database);
      redis.send_anyways = false;
    });
  }

  return(redis);
};

// Get a new redis connection
var redisConnection = exports.redisConnection =  connect(REDIS_URL);