> Does this apply to the dev environment as well? Just fire it up and run it > via localhost?
Unfortunately no (for the Python API): http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/overview.html#Task_Queues_and_the_Development_Server """ When your app is running in the development server, task queues are not processed automatically. Instead, task queues accrue tasks which you can examine and execute from the developer console """ Richard On May 11, 12:14 pm, Matthew <[email protected]> wrote: > Does this apply to the dev environment as well? Just fire it up and > run it via localhost? > > If that's the case, would you mind providing an example or the proper > documentation link to help me get started? > > Also, since bulk inserts are now possible in > GAEhttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/93d3dad847..., > does that mean they're only possible from within the application > itself (not via script)? > > Thanks, > Matthew > > On May 10, 7:04 pm, howesc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > everything on GAE must be called via a URL (it must be a controller/ > > function). if you need to run it periodically look up how to do cron > > on GAE and create your cron.yaml. > > > @auth.requires_membership() is your friend in this case to limit who > > can call your controller. :) > > > i have several of these sorts of things running on GAE, and it seems > > to work quite well. > > > On May 9, 7:14 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > no > > > > On May 9, 8:33 pm, Matthew <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You can run a script with Postgres or MySQL using this syntax: > > > > > python web2py.py -S myapp -M -R applications/myapp/modules/ > > > > myscript.py > > > > > Can a script be run in this way using App Engine as the datastore?

