A tiny example API written in Go using Martini and Redigo

api.go

package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/codegangsta/martini"
	"github.com/garyburd/redigo/redis"
	"github.com/martini-contrib/render"
)

var (
	redisAddress   = flag.String("redis-address", ":6379", "Address to the Redis server")
	maxConnections = flag.Int("max-connections", 10, "Max connections to Redis")
)

func main() {
	martini.Env = martini.Prod

	flag.Parse()

	redisPool := redis.NewPool(func() (redis.Conn, error) {
		c, err := redis.Dial("tcp", *redisAddress)

		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}

		return c, err
	}, *maxConnections)

	defer redisPool.Close()

	m := martini.Classic()

	m.Map(redisPool)

	m.Use(render.Renderer())

	m.Get("/", func() string {
		return "Hello from Martini!"
	})

	m.Get("/set/:key", func(r render.Render, pool *redis.Pool, params martini.Params, req *http.Request) {
		key := params["key"]
		value := req.URL.Query().Get("value")

		c := pool.Get()
		defer c.Close()

		status, err := c.Do("SET", key, value)

		if err != nil {
			message := fmt.Sprintf("Could not SET %s:%s", key, value)

			r.JSON(400, map[string]interface{}{
				"status":  "ERR",
				"message": message})
		} else {
			r.JSON(200, map[string]interface{}{
				"status": status})
		}
	})

	m.Get("/get/:key", func(r render.Render, pool *redis.Pool, params martini.Params) {
		key := params["key"]

		c := pool.Get()
		defer c.Close()

		value, err := redis.String(c.Do("GET", key))

		if err != nil {
			message := fmt.Sprintf("Could not GET %s", key)

			r.JSON(400, map[string]interface{}{
				"status":  "ERR",
				"message": message})
		} else {
			r.JSON(200, map[string]interface{}{
				"status": "OK",
				"value":  value})
		}
	})

	m.Run()
}

Disregard that last comment, here's what I did that keeps the main func a bit cleaner.

func SetupRedis() *redis.Pool {
    return redis.NewPool(func() (redis.Conn, error) {
        c, err := redis.Dial("tcp", *redisAddress)

        PanicIf(err)

        return c, err
    }, *maxConnections)
}

func main() {
        ...
    redisPool := SetupRedis()
    defer redisPool.Close()

    m.Map(redisPool)
        ...
}

Use the struct instead of the NewPool function.

NewPool creates a new pool. This function is deprecated. Applications should initialize the Pool fields directly as shown in example.

https://github.com/garyburd/redigo/blob/master/redis/pool.go#L89