Improve running redis locally

- adds simple explicit instructions for how to install and run
  redis
- gets celery running in docker able to talk to redis running
  natively on your machine as per
  https://docs.docker.com/desktop/mac/networking/#i-want-to-connect-from-a-container-to-a-service-on-the-host
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David McDonald
2022-02-08 17:09:36 +00:00
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@@ -61,10 +61,18 @@ export PATH=${PATH}:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/11/bin/
### Redis
To switch redis on you'll need to install it locally. On a OSX we've used brew for this. To use redis caching you need to switch it on by changing the config for development:
You can run redis locally using
REDIS_ENABLED = True
```
brew install redis
redis-server
```
To get the API to use redis locally you need to change the config for development:
```
REDIS_ENABLED = True
```
## To run the application