socket.io-couchdb-emitter
allows you to communicate with socket.io servers
easily from non-socket.io processes.
var io = require('socket.io-couchdb-emitter')({ host: '127.0.0.1', port: 5984, db : 'socket.io', encode : true });
setInterval(function(){
io.emit('time', new Date);
}, 5000);