mranney/node_redis — pull request #549 by bfuster (2014-02-07 19:17:20+00:00)
Title: Failing send_command faster when there's no connection

When redis is down, issuing commands takes a long time to fail (sometimes 3~5 seconds) because its trying to talk with a disconnected redis.

I'm just checking the state and failing faster if there's no connection.