Simple approach to launching background task in Django

Question

I have a Django website, and one page has a button (or link) that when clicked will launch a somewhat long running task. Obviously I want to launch this task as a background

Answer 1

If you're willing to install a 3rd party library, but you want something a whole lot simpler than Celery, check out Redis Queue. It does require Redis, which is pretty easy in itself, but that can provide a lot of other benefits as well.

RQ itself has almost zero configuration. It's startlingly simple.

References:

• http://python-rq.org/
• http://nvie.com/posts/introducing-rq/
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-rq (RQ on Heroku)