Upped version to 0.2.1

adds support for django-redis connections

README.rst

@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ All configuration settings are optional. e.g:
 
 For full configuration options, see the `configuration documentation <http://django-q.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html#configuration>`__.
 
+
+If you are using `django-redis <https://github.com/niwinz/django-redis>`__ , you can `configure Django Q <https://django-q.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html#django_redis>`__ to use its connection pool.
+
 Management Commands
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

django_q/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from .tasks import async, schedule, result, fetch
 from .models import Task, Schedule
 
-VERSION = (0, 2, 0)
+VERSION = (0, 2, 1)
 
 default_app_config = 'django_q.apps.DjangoQConfig'

django_q/conf.py

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ class Conf(object):
     # Redis server configuration . Follows standard redis keywords
     REDIS = conf.get('redis', {})
 
+    # Support for Django-Redis connections
+
+    DJANGO_REDIS = conf.get('django_redis', None)
+
     # Name of the cluster or site. For when you run multiple sites on one redis server
     PREFIX = conf.get('name', 'default')
 
@@ -74,5 +78,19 @@ if not logger.handlers:
     handler.setFormatter(formatter)
     logger.addHandler(handler)
 
+
+# Django-redis support
+if Conf.DJANGO_REDIS:
+    try:
+        import django_redis
+    except ImportError:
+        django_redis = None
+
+
+def get_redis_client():
+    if Conf.DJANGO_REDIS and django_redis:
+        return django_redis.get_redis_connection(Conf.DJANGO_REDIS)
+    return redis.StrictRedis(**Conf.REDIS)
+
 # redis client
-redis_client = redis.StrictRedis(**Conf.REDIS)
+redis_client = get_redis_client()

docs/install.rst

@@ -109,6 +109,21 @@ Connection settings for Redis. Defaults::
 
 For more information on these settings please refer to the `Redis-py <https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py>`__ documentation
 
+django_redis
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+If you are already using `django-redis <https://github.com/niwinz/django-redis>`__ for your caching, you can take advantage of its excellent connection backend by supplying the name
+of the cache connection you want to use::
+
+    # example django-redis connection
+    Q_CLUSTER = {
+        'name': 'DJRedis',
+        'workers': 4,
+        'timeout': 90,
+        'django_redis: 'default'
+    }
+
+
 
 .. tip::
     Django Q uses your :const:`SECRET_KEY` to encrypt task packages and prevent task crossover. So make sure you have it set up in your Django settings.

setup.py

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ class PyTest(Command):
 
 setup(
     name='django-q',
-    version='0.2.0',
+    version='0.2.1',
     author='Ilan Steemers',
     author_email='koed00@gmail.com',
     packages=['django_q'],