external settings

There have been several questions asked about setting up external settings. For instance, using django, one needs to setup the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE. Below are 2 examples of doing that before running a worker.

First is inside the job’s perform method:

import logging

class BlogJob(object):

    queue = ‘blog-queue’

    @staticmethod

    def perform(id, comment):

        import os

        os.environ[‘DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE’] = ‘blog.settings’

        from blog.models import Blog

        Blog.objects.get(id)

        “etc…”

Second is before the worker is run:

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=blog.settings pyres_worker blog-queue