Using kue-scheduler with ParseServer on Heroku - heroku

Question

In running kue-scheduler on heroku with the heroku redis plugin, while I can get kue jobs to work, it seems that kue-scheduler is requiring certain configuration of redis not allowed for in the heroku redis environment. Has anyone had success running kue-scheduler in an Heroku environment. Here is the start of my index.js file:
var express = require('express');
var ParseServer = require('parse-server').ParseServer;
var path = require('path');
var kue = require('kue-scheduler')
var queue = kue.createQueue({redis:
'redis://h:***************#ec2-**-19-83-130.compute-1.amazonaws.com:23539'
});
var job = queue.create('test', {
title: 'Hello world'
, to: 'j#example.com'
, template: 'welcome-email'
}).save( function(err){
if( !err ) console.log( job.id );
});
job.log('$Job %s run', job.id);
queue.every('30 seconds', job);
queue.process('test', function(job, done){
test_function(job.data.title, done);
});
function test_function(title, done) {
console.log('Ran test function with title %s', title)
// email send stuff...
done();
}
And here is the error.
2016-07-21T00:46:26.445297+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/node_modules/parse-server/lib/ParseServer.js:410
2016-07-21T00:46:26.445299+00:00 app[web.1]: throw err;
2016-07-21T00:46:26.445300+00:00 app[web.1]: ^
2016-07-21T00:46:26.445417+00:00 app[web.1]: ReplyError: ERR unknown command 'config'
2016-07-21T00:46:26.445419+00:00 app[web.1]: at parseError (/app/node_modules/redis-parser/lib/parser.js:161:12)
2016-07-21T00:46:26.445420+00:00 app[web.1]: at parseType (/app/node_modules/redis-parser/lib/parser.js:222:14)
2016-07-21T00:46:26.466188+00:00 app[web.1]:
The issue is that heroku redis doesn't allow config options on its redis infrastructure from what I can tell.
If someone has had success, grateful for any suggestions.

Answer 1

managed to solve this by:
var queue = kue.createQueue(
{redis: 'redis://xxxxxxxxxxxxx#ec2-50-19-83-130.compute-1.amazonaws.com:23539',
skipConfig: true
});
Just need the skipConfig parameter

Answer 2

I was having the same problem and was unable to get kue-scheduler working on Heroku-Redis. To solve, I instead used the Heroku Add-on Redis Cloud.
This allows you to set the required Redis flag notify-keyspace-events which isn't modifiable on the regular Heroku-Redis add-on. To set this flag:
Add Redis Cloud heroku add-on
Go to heroku settings page
Reveal Config Vars in Config Variables
Copy REDISCLOUD_URL, it should be something like redis://rediscloud:PASSWORD#xxx.redislabs.com:PORT_NUMBER
In terminal enter redis-cli -h xxx.redislabs.com -p PORT_NUMBER -a PASSWORD with variables from REDISCLOUD_URL
Once connected, enter config set notify-keyspace-events Ex
You can verify it is set correctly by entering config get notify-keyspace-events
Make sure to update your javascript code to point to your new REDISCLOUD_URL when calling kue.createQueue()
credit to #josephktcheung for their work though here: https://github.com/lykmapipo/kue-scheduler/issues/46