From 98cb2d4c17d9cbc7934169f8e1b22cebae0bf2bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: adarqui <andrew.darqui@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 15:42:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] a little logic to allow nodebb to use a unix domain socket
 rather than tcp/ip. unix dom sock has less overhead/latency.

---
 src/redis.js | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/redis.js b/src/redis.js
index 5413f58651..91bd583f85 100644
--- a/src/redis.js
+++ b/src/redis.js
@@ -4,7 +4,15 @@
 		winston = require('winston'),
 		nconf = require('nconf');
 
-	RedisDB.exports = redis.createClient(nconf.get('redis:port'), nconf.get('redis:host'));
+	var redis_socket_or_host = nconf.get('redis:host')
+	if(redis_socket_or_host.indexOf('/')>=0) {
+		/* If redis.host contains a path name character, use the unix dom sock connection. ie, /tmp/redis.sock */
+		RedisDB.exports = redis.createClient(nconf.get('redis:host'))
+	}
+	else {
+		/* Else, connect over tcp/ip */
+		RedisDB.exports = redis.createClient(nconf.get('redis:port'), nconf.get('redis:host'));
+	}
 
 	if (nconf.get('redis:password')) {
 		RedisDB.exports.auth(nconf.get('redis:password'));
@@ -55,4 +63,4 @@
 
 
 
-}(module));
\ No newline at end of file
+}(module));