add celery to docker-compose

Author: omidcodes

README.md

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ A Django RESTful API for managing personal or team tasks — featuring PostgreSQ
 
 - ✅ Django 5 + Django REST Framework
 - ✅ PostgreSQL database (via Docker)
-- ✅ RabbitMQ for background tasks (Celery-ready)
+- ✅ RabbitMQ for background tasks (Celery integrated)
+- ✅ Asynchronous task logging using Celery
 - ✅ Environment config with `.env` and `python-decouple`
 - ✅ Swagger UI for API documentation
 - ✅ Containerized with Docker
@@ -21,12 +22,13 @@ A Django RESTful API for managing personal or team tasks — featuring PostgreSQ
 
 ```
 taskflow-api/
-├── taskflow_api/           # Django project
-├── tasks/                  # App: task models, views, serializers
+├── taskflow_api/           # Django project (includes celery.py)
+├── tasks/                  # App: task models, views, serializers, signals, celery tasks
 ├── requirements.txt        # Python dependencies
 ├── Dockerfile              # Production image for gunicorn
 ├── docker-compose.yml      # DB and RabbitMQ container setup
 ├── .env                    # Environment configuration
+├── logs/                   # Directory for activity logs (auto-created)
 ├── run_server.sh           # Run production server (Gunicorn)
 └── start-dev-services.sh   # Run DB + RabbitMQ for development
 ```
@@ -79,20 +81,38 @@ Use this when you want to run Django locally (`runserver`) and containers only f
 
 > This will:
 > - Start PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ containers
-> - Stop and remove any running `web` container
+> - Stop and remove any running web container
 > - Run DB migrations automatically
 
 ### ▶️ Then Run Django:
 ```bash
 python3 manage.py runserver
 ```
 
+### ▶️ Run Celery Worker:
+```bash
+celery -A taskflow_api worker --loglevel=info
+```
+
 Open:
 - Swagger docs: http://localhost:8000/docs/
 - API root: http://localhost:8000/api/tasks/
 
 ---
 
+## 🧩 Celery Logging Task
+
+When a task is created through the API, a Celery worker will automatically:
+
+- Run `log_task_action` in the background using `celery -A taskflow_api worker --loglevel=info`
+- Write an entry like this to `logs/task_activity.log`:
+
+```
+[2025-09-14 19:45:00] Task #12 ('Example Task') was created
+```
+
+---
+
 ## 🏭 Production Mode (Dockerized Web)
 
 ### ▶️ Build & Run All Services:
@@ -117,11 +137,12 @@ docker compose up --build
 - **Backend**: Django 5, DRF
 - **Database**: PostgreSQL (Docker)
 - **Broker**: RabbitMQ (Docker)
+- **Background Jobs**: Celery (activity logging)
 - **Containerization**: Docker, Docker Compose
 - **CI-ready**: Gunicorn + environment-based config
 
 ---
 
 ## 📜 License
 
-MIT © Omid Hashemzadeh
+MIT © Omid Hashemzadeh

docker-compose.yml

@@ -26,4 +26,15 @@ services:
     image: rabbitmq:management
     ports:
       - "5672:5672"
-      - "15672:15672"
+      - "15672:15672"
+
+  celery:
+    build: .
+    command: celery -A taskflow_api worker --loglevel=info
+    volumes:
+      - .:/app
+    depends_on:
+      - db
+      - rabbitmq
+    env_file:
+      - .env

tasks/tasks.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ def log_task_action(task_id, action):
     """Log task ID and title to a file."""
     try:
         task = Task.objects.get(id=task_id)
-        log_line = f"[{now()}] Logging Celery Task : Task #{task.id} ('{task.title}') was {action} using celery.\n"
+        log_line = f"[{now()}] Task #{task.id} ('{task.title}') was {action} via Celery background task.\n"
     except Task.DoesNotExist:
         log_line = f"[{now()}] ERROR: Task {task_id} not found for action '{action}'\n"