http://blog.xebia.com/2011/06/getting-started-with-node-js-npm-coffeescript-express-jade-and-redis/ is a great start to coffee with redis and express. To get this working on Heroku I needed to include some ideas from http://pinoytech.org/question/4441798/how-to-use-redis-publish-subscribe-with-nodejs-by-event-driven - View it on GitHub