following updates in django 1.3 dev

README.rst

@@ -20,7 +20,15 @@ Usage
 
 2. Modify your Django settings to use ``redis_cache`` ::
 
-    CACHE_BACKEND = 'redis_cache.cache://<host>:<port>'
+    CACHES = {
+        'default': {
+            'BACKEND': 'redis_cache.cache.CacheClass',
+            'LOCATION': '<host>:<port>',
+            'OPTIONS': { # optional
+                'DB': 1,
+            },
+        },
+    }
 
 
 

redis_cache/cache.py

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ except ImportError:
 
 
 class CacheClass(BaseCache):
-    def __init__(self, server, params, key_prefix='', version=1, key_func=None):
+    def __init__(self, server, params):
         """
         Connect to Redis, and set up cache backend.
         """
-        BaseCache.__init__(self, params, key_prefix, version, key_func)
-        db = params.get('db', 1)
+        BaseCache.__init__(self, params)
+        db = params.get('OPTIONS', {}).get('db', 1)
         try:
             db = int(db)
         except (ValueError, TypeError):