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    copied!<p>I am following along <a href="http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django" rel="noreferrer">this</a> tutorial to get celery and django running on heroku. </p> <p>However, I get this error in my logs when I put in the specified code for the worker:</p> <pre><code>2011-12-22T05:31:56+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command `python canada/manage.py run_gunicorn -b "0.0.0.0:47336" -w 3` 2011-12-22T05:31:56+00:00 app[web.1]: Unexpected error: (&lt;type 'exceptions.NameError'&gt;, NameError("name 'DATABASES' is not defined",), &lt;traceback object at 0x11a9560&gt;) 2011-12-22T05:31:56+00:00 app[web.1]: Traceback (most recent call last): 2011-12-22T05:31:56+00:00 app[web.1]: File "canada/manage.py", line 11, in &lt;module&gt; 2011-12-22T05:31:56+00:00 app[web.1]: import settings 2011-12-22T05:31:56+00:00 app[web.1]: File "/app/canada/settings.py", line 51, in &lt;module&gt; 2011-12-22T05:31:56+00:00 app[web.1]: CELERY_RESULT_DBURI = DATABASES['default'] 2011-12-22T05:31:56+00:00 app[web.1]: NameError: name 'DATABASES' is not defined 2011-12-22T05:31:57+00:00 heroku[slugc]: Slug compilation finished 2011-12-22T05:31:57+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to crashed 2011-12-22T05:31:58+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited </code></pre> <p>My settings.py looks like</p> <pre><code>import djcelery djcelery.setup_loader() BROKER_BACKEND = "djkombu.transport.DatabaseTransport" CELERY_RESULT_DBURI = DATABASES['default'] ... </code></pre> <p>When I synced before adding this line, <code>CELERY_RESULT_DBURI = DATABASES['default']</code>, it ran fine. According to <a href="http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django#postgres_database_config" rel="noreferrer">the document</a></p> <blockquote> <p>When you deploy a Django application, the compile process appends the following code to your settings.py to use the DATABASE_URL environment variable:</p> </blockquote>
 

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