Connecting to redis using kue always creates a connection to localhost - node.js

Question

I can't connect to Redis using kue, I've followed this article, practically I'm creating the connection by using the kue redis client, and the connection code is this:
var kue = require('kue'),
redis = require('kue/node_modules/redis');
app.redisClient = redis.createClient('6379', 'remoteip',{});
app.redisClient.on('error', function (err) {
console.log('Redis error encountered', err);
});
app.redisClient.on('end', function() {
console.log('Redis connection closed');
});
kue.redis.createClient = function() {
console.log('client ------------------',app.redisClient);
return app.redisClient;
};
and it seems like Kue is trying to connect to a local Redis (which I don't have installed), because I'm getting this exception:
Error: Redis connection to 127.0.0.1:6379 failed - connect
ECONNREFUSED
I've read this post and it seems like the issue has been resolved in version 0.8 and I'm using 0.8.11 :/, finally I also wanted to override the client using a different client instance by using redis nodejs without any luck, because I'm getting the same error.
any help will be more than appreciated.
thanks!

Answer 1

I used a different way to setup the connection and it works so far this is what I've done:
app.redisClient = redis.createClient(config.redisPort, config.redisUrl,{});
app.redisClient.on('connect', function () {
console.info('successful connection to redis server');
});
app.redisClient.on('error', function (err) {
console.log('Redis error encountered', err);
});
app.redisClient.on('end', function() {
console.log('Redis connection closed');
});
kue.app.listen(config.kuePort);
app.jobs = kue.createQueue({
redis: {
createClientFactory: function(){
return app.redisClient;
}
}
});