Testing code which uses Celery
Some of the Celery docs - for example, here - will tell you to use CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER=True when testing so the task runs immediately. This is not the right variable.
Despite the image, I mean the task scheduling software, not the vegetable.
Having just spent an annoying amount of time on this I'm writing it down for posterity, in the hope it'll save someone else from wasting time too.
Some of the Celery docs - for example, here - will tell you to use CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER=True when testing so the task runs immediately.
This is not the right variable.
The one you want is CELERY_TASK_ALWAYS_EAGER=True, as per this link from other Celery docs. (Their documentation is ... not as good as the Django docs.)