A simple function for Go (golang) projects on Heroku using Redis To Go. It pulls the environment var REDISTOGO_URL and returns the server:port and password part of it for use with redis clients. Used in my project to learn Go at https://github.com/TheDudeWithTheThing/quotient-quotables

ParseRedistogoUrl

func ParseRedistogoUrl() (string, string) {
  redisUrl := os.Getenv("REDISTOGO_URL")
  redisInfo, _ := url.Parse(redisUrl)
  server := redisInfo.Host
  password := ""
  if redisInfo.User != nil {
    password, _ = redisInfo.User.Password()
  }
  return server, password
}

Hi. I have a hard time trying this (probably something else going wrong). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25831869/golang-redis-error-on-heroku Does the parsing still work? What happens with the username? Thanx