Heroku RedisCloud Redis :: CannotConnectError on localhost instead of REDISCLOUD_URL

Question

There are quite a few questions like this, but no one seems to solve my problem. Here's the grub:

Rails 4, a Ruby 2.0.0 application using Resque and Redis.

My redis initializer:

#config/initializers/redis.rb if ENV["REDISCLOUD_URL"] $redis = Redis.new(:url => ENV["REDISCLOUD_URL"]) end 

The error is this, as reported by heroku logs:

 Redis::CannotConnectError: Error connecting to Redis on 127.0.0.1:6379 (ECONNREFUSED) 

My procfile:

 web: bundle exec rackup config.ru -p $PORT resque: env TERM_CHILD=1 QUEUES=* bundle exec rake resque:work 

If this helps, my REDISCLOUD_URL :

 redis://rediscloud: somestuff@someotherstuff :17695 

This is not in http:// . This is problem?

I tried all the other entries on these issues and nothing works. Any tips? I already described the RedisCloud Heroku page here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rediscloud

Answer 1

Nothing, I found the answer. I did $redis = Resque.redis = Redis.new ... in my redis.rb initializer, and then I had to migrate my db. Stupid me.