From 652ced25801c7e43b240932eb61afdbc8a914e3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Driessen Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:37:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add sources of inspiration. --- README.md | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 96ca726..1e60f12 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,17 @@ # WARNING: DON'T USE THIS IN PRODUCTION (yet) -# rq — Simple job queues for Python +# RQ — Simple job queues for Python -**rq** is a lightweight Python job queue, based on Redis. +**RQ** is a lightweight Python library for queueing work and processing them in +workers. It is backed by Redis. + +This project is inspired by the good parts of [Celery][1], [Resque][2] and +[this snippet][3], and has been created as a lightweight alternative to the +heaviness of Celery. + +[1]: http://www.celeryproject.org/ +[2]: https://github.com/defunkt/resque +[3]: http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/73/ # Putting jobs on queues