= Celery = Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/first-steps-with-celery.html == Slackware 14 installation == * easy_install celery Check installation: {{{#!highlight bash python Python 2.7.3 (default, Jul 3 2012, 19:58:39) [GCC 4.7.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import celery >>> celery.__version__ '3.1.7' >>> }}} == Test app with Redis == Run redis: {{{#!highlight bash #redis-server & #redis-cli redis 127.0.0.1:6379> quit }}} App: {{{#!highlight python from celery import Celery app = Celery('tasks', broker='redis://localhost') @app.task def add(x, y): return x + y }}}