Celery error : result.get times out

Question

I\'ve installed Celery and I\'m trying to test it with the Celery First Steps Doc.

I tried using both Redis and RabbitMQ as brokers and backends, but I can\'t get th

Answer 1

The 'backend' configuration can no longer be passed to the Celery object as an optional parameter, but should be passed through the python configuration parameter CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND (see https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/2146).

So the tasks.py (from the Celery tutorial) should look something like:

from celery import Celery

app = Celery('tasks', broker='amqp://guest@localhost//')
app.config_from_object('celeryconfig')

@app.task
def add(x, y):
    print '[' + str(x) + '][' + str(y) + ']=' + str(x+y)
    return x + y

Create a file celeryconfig.py in the same directory as tasks.py with the following content:

CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND='amqp://'