fixed crash with badly signed packages and added redis ping

django_q/core.py

@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ redis_client = redis.StrictRedis(**REDIS)
 
 class Cluster(object):
     def __init__(self, list_key=Q_LIST):
+        try:
+            redis_client.ping()
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.exception(e)
+            return
         self.sentinel = None
         self.stop_event = None
         self.start_event = None
@@ -297,9 +302,9 @@ def worker(task_queue, done_queue):
         try:
             task = SignedPackage.loads(pack)
         except (TypeError, signing.BadSignature) as e:
-            result = (e, False)
+            logger.error(e)
+            continue
         # Get the function from the task
-        if not result:
         logger.info('{} processing [{}]'.format(name, task['name']))
         f = task['func']
         # if it's not an instance try to get it from the string