A hubot script to persist hubot's brain using redis

See src/redis-brain.coffee for full documentation.

In hubot project repo, run:

npm install hubot-redis-brain --save

Then add hubot-redis-brain to your external-scripts.json:

[
  "hubot-redis-brain"
]

hubot-redis-brain requires a redis server to work. It uses the REDIS_URL environment variable for determining where to connect to. The default is on localhost, port 6379 (ie the redis default).

The following attributes can be set using the REDIS_URL

• authentication
• hostname
• port
• key prefix

For example, export REDIS_URL=redis://[email protected]:16379/prefix would authenticate with password, connecting to 192.168.0.1 on port 16379, and store data using the prefix:storage key.

If you need to install and run your own, most package managers have a package for redis:

• Mac OS X with homebrew: brew install redis
• Ubuntu/Debian with apt: apt-get install redis-server
• Compile from source: http://redis.io/topics/quickstart

If you are using boxen to manage your environment, hubot-redis-brain will automatically use the boxen-managed redis (ie by using BOXEN_REDIS_URL).

If you are deploying on Heroku, you can add the Redis Cloud or Redis To Go addon to have automatically configure itself to use it:

• Redis Cloud
• Redis To Go

Other redis addons would need to be configured using REDIS_URL until support is added to hubot-redis-brain (or hubot-redis-brain needs to be updated to look for the environment variable the service uses)