move require('../lib/redis_conf.js') inside lab.test() to ensure its …

…only required once test is running as suggested hapijs/lab#401 (comment)

README.md

@@ -97,11 +97,31 @@ We use:
 + **n** for the **name** of the person who wrote the message
 + **t** for the **timestamp** the message was *received* by the node server (_to avoid time-zone issues_);
 
-## Run it!
+# Run it!
 
+## Locally (_on your own mahine_)
+
+Define the TCP `PORT` (_environment variable_) you want the Hapi.js + Socket.io server to listen on:
 ```sh
 export PORT=8000
 ```
+then you can start the app with:
+```sh
+npm install && npm start
+```
+
+## Running the Tests (_Locally_)
+
+To successfully run the tests you need to have an environment variable for RedisCloud
+(this is because we like to know that our code works on both "local" and in a "production" enviroment...)
+
+E.g:
+```sh
+export REDISCLOUD_URL=redis://rediscloud:[email protected]:12345
+```
+
+## Heroku (deploying to Heroku)
+
 
 
 ## Background Reading

lib/redis_config.js

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ var url   = require('url');
 /**** determine if we are connecting to RedisCloud or Local Instance ****/
 // console.log('WTF?! - - > process.env.REDISCLOUD_URL '+ process.env.REDISCLOUD_URL);
 if(process.env.REDISCLOUD_URL) {
+  console.log('- - - > HOW IS THIS NOT BEING "COVERED" ??!! when this being console.log(ed) < - - - ')
   var redisURL    = url.parse(process.env.REDISCLOUD_URL);
   var redisconfig = {
     port: redisURL.port,

test/_redis_cloud.js

@@ -12,13 +12,14 @@ lab.experiment('RedisCloud Connection Check', { timeout: 10000 }, function () {
   // var REDISCLOUD_URL = process.env.REDISCLOUD_URL;
   uncache('../lib/redis_config.js');
   console.log('- - > process.env.REDISCLOUD_URL '+ process.env.REDISCLOUD_URL);
-  var rc          = require('../lib/redis_config.js');
-  console.log(rc);
-  var redisClient = redis.createClient(rc.port, rc.host, {no_ready_check: true});
-  redisClient.auth(rc.auth);
 
   lab.test(file +" Confirm RedisCloud is accessible GET/SET", function(done) {
 
+    var rc  = require('../lib/redis_config.js');
+    console.log(rc);
+    var redisClient = redis.createClient(rc.port, rc.host, {no_ready_check: true});
+    redisClient.auth(rc.auth);
+
     redisClient.set('redis', 'working', redisClient.print);
     console.log("✓ Redis Client connected to: " + redisClient.address);
     assert(redisClient.address !== '127.0.0.1:6379', "✓ Redis Client connected to: " + redisClient.address)