bobby-didcoding/did_django_schedule_jobs_v2

Django project that uses Celery, Redis and Celery Beat to schedule tasks

DID_DJANGO_SCHEDULE_JOBS_V2

Hi there. This repo has a few tutorial videos that will you get up and running quickly

1. https://youtu.be/_9MbgyUvDGs - This will walk you through how to set up the project without Docker

Local Development Setup

1. Clone this repo git clone [email protected]:bobby-didcoding/did_django_schedule_jobs_v2.git
2. Create your .env file from the template file cp .env.template backend/.env

Install Redis for Celery

1. Install 'Ubuntu' and set up Redis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nFwPTHOMIY)
2. Download Ubunto from windows store and launch app
3. create a username (must be an email) & password
4. Now create redis repository sudo apt-add-repository ppa:redislabs/redis
5. Now update and upgrade packages sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get upgrade
6. Now install Redis sudo apt-get install redis-server

Config

7. Create a .env file from the .env.template and fill-in the environment variables specific to your setup (eg. DB name, user and password) - Save this into /backend
8. Set up a virtual environment cd backend && python -m venv env
9. Activate virtual environment cd env/scripts && activate && cd ../..
10. Install dependencies for your local environment by running pip install -r requirements/Local.txt
11. Run python manage.py migrate

Fire up servers

12. Open Ubuntu terminal and fire up a Redis server redis-server
13. Open another Ubuntu and set up a Redis CLI redis-cli
14. Open new cmd in root and use this command celery -A did_django_schedule_jobs_v2.celery beat -l INFOto fire up celery beat
15. Open new cmd in root and use this command celery -A did_django_schedule_jobs_v2.celery worker --pool=solo -l info to fire up a celery worker
16. Run python manage.py runserver