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How do I start redis queue worker on django start?

I decided I need to use an asynchronous queue system. And am setting up Redis/RQ/django-rq. I am wondering how I can start workers in my project.

django-rq provides a management command which is great, it looks like:

python manage.py rqworker high default low

But is it possible to start the worker when you start the django instance? Just wondering or is it something I will always have to start manually?

Thanks.

Solution

  • Django operates inside reques-response cycle, and it starts by request. So it is bad idea to attach such command to Django startup.
    Instead of that, I would recommend you to look at supervisord - a process manager, that can automate services launch at system start and other things.