squarism

I made a redis client (lol).  It's pretty alpha I think.  Here's the repo:  https://github.com/squarism/opencomputers_redis

local redis = require("redis")
client = redis.connection('opencomputers://localhost:6379')

-- change databases
client:select(11)

-- basic usage
client:set("redis", "awesome")

This will store "awesome" in the "redis" key in the real-world redis server on localhost.  Of course you need an Internet card and some other setup.  It's in the README and if it's not it should be and that's a bug.  

You have to unblacklist localhost in this case.  The other details are in the README.  If you are asking "whyyyyyy" or yelling "staaahp".  First, calm down bro.    Second, I'm using this to pump metrics into statsd and then putting that into a real metrics system.  Redis in this case is a simple database for OC.  I'd love to have redis or something inside of minecraft but that's porting C to Lua (eesh).  Getting a redis client was tricky enough.  Most of the code is not mine (credited) but the trick was to attach to a fake OC socket.  Crazy.

I'm attaching a screenshot but for those of you coming from Google and not able to see screenshots, here's a tweet with a screenshot of the metrics thing:

https://twitter.com/squarism/status/575927329932759040

(very complicated setup, post if you are interested)