Django 1.6 with Redis Cloud

If you want or need Redis.IO in your Django application,m you can use Redis-Cloud.

First, you need create your first database in redis-cloud site. Here will be created the next URL:

 Endpoint: YOUR_REDISCLOUD_HOSTNAME:YOUR_REDISCLOUD_DB_PORT

For the use of Redis with Django, you need install additional packages:

• django-redis-cache
• hiredis

You only need configure:

 rhc env set REDISCLOUD_URL=YOUR_REDISCLOUD_HOSTNAME --app djangoproj
 rhc env set REDISCLOUD_PORT=YOUR_REDISCLOUD_DB_PORT --app djangoproj
 rhc env set REDISCLOUD_PASSWORD=YOUR_REDISCLOUD_DB_PASS --app djangoproj

Then make:

 git push

For more details, see the settings.py file where redis-cloud is configurated:

Here, the settings.py file uses the environ variables previously configurated

 # If you want configure the REDISCLOUD
 if 'REDISCLOUD_URL' in os.environ and 'REDISCLOUD_PORT' in os.environ and 
    'REDISCLOUD_PASSWORD' in os.environ:
      redis_server = os.environ['REDISCLOUD_URL']
      redis_port = os.environ['REDISCLOUD_PORT']
      redis_password = os.environ['REDISCLOUD_PASSWORD']
      CACHES = {
         'default' : {
             'BACKEND' : 'redis_cache.RedisCache',
             'LOCATION' : '%s:%d'%(redis_server,int(redis_port)),
             'OPTIONS' : {
                 'DB':0,
                 'PARSER_CLASS' : 'redis.connection.HiredisParser',
                 'PASSWORD' : redis_password,
             }
          }
      }
      MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ('django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware',) + 
                           MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES + 
                          ('django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware',)