diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index f4bf22ad5d02b999835c6ea95e591c74587f0cdc..2151c15472872bb54a8aef82b0f60d3142522b02 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -195,4 +195,5 @@ djcelery.setup_loader()
 
 
 # for testing
-#CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = True
+TEST_RUNNER = 'djcelery.contrib.test_runner.CeleryTestSuiteRunner'
+# this effectively does CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = True