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A RabbitMQ asynchronous task queue for Django.

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**django-carrot** is a lightweight task queue backend for Django projects that uses the RabbitMQ message broker, with
an emphasis on quick and easy configuration and task tracking

Installation
------------

Install django-carrot:

.. code-block:: bash

pip install django-carrot

Install and run RabbitMQ

.. code-block:: bash

brew install rabbitmq
brew services start rabbitmq

Configuration
-------------

1. Add carrot to your Django project's settings module:

.. code-block:: python

INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'carrot',
...
]


2. Apply the carrot migrations to your project's database:

.. code-block:: python

python manage.py migrate carrot


Usage
-----

To start the service:

.. code-block:: bash

python manage.py carrot_daemon start


To run tasks asynchronously:

.. code-block:: python

from carrot.utilities import publish_message

def my_task(**kwargs):
return 'hello world'

publish_message(my_task, hello=True)



To schedule tasks to run at a given interval

.. code-block:: python

from carrot.utilities import create_scheduled_task

create_scheduled_task(my_task, {'seconds': 5}, hello=True)


.. note::
The above commands must be made from within the Django environment

Docker
------

A sample docker config is available `here <https://github.com/chris104957/django-carrot-docker>`_

Full documentation
------------------

The full documentation is available `here <https://django-carrot.readthedocs.io/>`_

Support
-------

If you are having any issues, please `log an issue <https://github.com/chris104957/django-carrot/issues/new>`_

Contributing
------------

Django-carrot uses `Packagr <https://www.packagr.app/>`_ to share development builds. If you'd like access to it,
please send me your email address at christopherdavies553@gmail.com so I can give you access

License
-------

The project is licensed under the Apache license.

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