consumer: Cannot connect to redis://localhost:6379//: Error 61 connecting to 127.0.0.1:6379. Connection refused

Question

I'm trying to get celery up and running on Heroku as per the woeful instructions here

whenever i try to run "heroku local"

it gives me the error:

consumer: Cannot connect to redis://localhost:6379//: Error 61 connecting to 127.0.0.1:6379.         
Connection refused..

any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

you have to run the server

$ redis-server

this work for me