Confusion between celery and celeryd

Question

I have successfully installed celery and django celery in my django app. I have followed a number of tutorials in an effort to understand it. Some start the worker with celery like so:

python manage.py celery worker --loglevel=info

others start it with celeryd:

python manage.py celeryd –-verbosity=2 –loglevel=DEBUG

I have 2 questions please:

1. Which one should I be using?

2. The celeryd command is not working (see exception below). How can i fix it?

   File "manage.py", line 10, in execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/Users/juankruger/.virtualenvs/pony/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 385, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/Users/juankruger/.virtualenvs/pony/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 377, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/Users/juankruger/.virtualenvs/pony/lib/python2.7/site-packages/djcelery/management/base.py", line 81, in run_from_argv self.handle_default_options(argv[2:]) File "/Users/juankruger/.virtualenvs/pony/lib/python2.7/site-packages/djcelery/management/base.py", line 91, in handle_default_options if '--settings=' in arg: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Answer 1

celeryd is the old version of celery worker.You can use both.But prefer latest.Then error is in your syntax.Try this

python manage.py celeryd --verbosity=2 --loglevel=DEBUG