Heroku: Background Tasks In Python With Rq

I am trying to set a background task for my Django app with Heroku. I am following the steps explained in the Heroku documentation. However, I got stuck already at the very beginni

Solution 1:

You're confusing your production app on Heroku with your local development environment. RedisToGo is configured on Heroku, but when you run it on your development machine the environment variable is not present so it tries to find an instance of Redis running locally.

You can either install Redis on your development machine, or configure the REDISTOGO_URL environment variable locally.