Getting Celery Running with Django, django-celery, RabbitMQ and MacPorts

UPDATE: With the release of Celery 3.1, these instructions are out of date. I’ll be posting some notes on migration and doing a fresh 3.1 installation in the near future.

I recently needed an asynchronous task queue and found the fantastic Celery Project to be just what I was looking for.

Getting up and running was fairly simple as there’s lots of great documentation…

Django + Celery
http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/django/first-steps-with-django.html

RabbitMQ
http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/brokers/rabbitmq.html
http://www.rabbitmq.com/install-macports.html

But rather than read all of those, here’s a quick rundown of the 5 steps it takes to get up and running…

1) Install RabbitMQ

2) OPTIONAL – configure a rabbitmq user

3) Install Celery

4) Configure your Django application

5) Sync your DB

Boom goes the dynamite. You can now jump into the beginners Django tutorial found here.