On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 1:38:14 PM UTC, frocco wrote: > > I want to query the orders database every 5 minutes and alert admins that > new orders have arrived. > Would I use signals for this? >
Using a receiver attached to the post_save signal of your Order model would certainly be more efficient than polling the database. You could also generate the e-mail inside the save() method of your model. However you need to be careful as both may block your application. > Anyone have an example? > Everything you need is here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/signals/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
