django-cache-machine and Redis

Question

I'm trying to use django-cache-machine to cache queries within my application, but I want to use Redis as a backend. The docs don't really explain how to do this, yet the repository is filled with Redis references, so I'm pretty sure it's possible. I want to make sure I do it right though, so I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with configuring this and maybe more importantly, knows if there are any caveats?

Answer 1

In your settings set:

CACHE_MACHINE_USE_REDIS = True

REDIS_BACKEND = redis://127.0.0.1:6379?socket_timeout=0.1

https://github.com/jbalogh/django-cache-machine/blob/master/caching/invalidation.py#L187 https://github.com/jbalogh/django-cache-machine/blob/master/caching/invalidation.py#L213