Using celery with Flask

This repository contains two examples of using Celery

1. Send Asynchronous Email
2. Long running task with progress update

Quick Setup

Clone the repository.

->create virtualenv

$ virtualenv venv // this command to create virtual environment

->activate the virtual environment

$ source venv/bin/activate

->Install the requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Install the redis from https://redis.io/download .

How to run the project

You need to run three terminals

In first terminal,

$ cd Project-Folder

$ ./run-redis.sh

In second terminal.

$ cd Project-Folder

$ export MAIL_USERNAME=your-gmail-username

$ export MAIL_PASSWORD=your-gmail-password

$ source venv/bin/activate

(venv) $ celery worker -A app.celery --loglevel=info

In third terminal,

$ source venv/bin/activate

(venv) $ python app.py

Finally,

Go to http://localhost:5000/ and enjoy this application!