Connecting to redis on heroku with golang

I have an app on heroku using the redis-addon provided by heroku ("Redis Heroku"). To connect to this instance using go-redis, I have found this to be a working solution:

• The redis url is provided as an environment variable, REDIS_URL. 
• To use redis from golang, I use redis-go.  I install this library by typing "go get github.com/gopkg.in/redis.v3"
• Parse the url and extract the user before connecting(unless, you might end up with the error "dial tcp: too many colons in address redis://...")

	import "gopkg.in/redis.v3"
	var (
	//Client for the database connection
	client *redis.Client
	)
	func connect() {
	var resolvedURL = os.Getenv("REDIS_URL")
	var password = ""
	if !strings.Contains(herokuURL, "localhost") {
	parsedURL, _ := url.Parse(herokuURL)
	password, _ = parsedURL.User.Password()
	resolvedURL = parsedURL.Host
	}
	fmt.Printf("connecting to %s", herokuURL)
	client = redis.NewClient(&redis.Options{
	Addr: resolvedURL,
	Password: password,
	DB: 0, // use default DB
	})
	}

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