diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index da69b8a..4b46767 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ erl_crash.dump
 *.db
 Documentation/
 .tox/
+.idea/
diff --git a/flask_celery.py b/flask_celery.py
index 2f9a85d..1fd7887 100644
--- a/flask_celery.py
+++ b/flask_celery.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from celery.loaders import default as _default
 from celery.utils import get_full_cls_name
 
-from werkzeug import cached_property
+from werkzeug.utils import cached_property
 
 from flask.ext import script
 
@@ -25,9 +25,13 @@
 class FlaskLoader(_default.Loader):
 
     def read_configuration(self):
-        config = self.app.flask_app.config
-        settings = self.setup_settings(config)
-        self.configured = True
+        try:
+            config = self.app.flask_app.config
+            settings = self.setup_settings(config)
+            self.configured = True
+        except AttributeError:
+            settings = dict()
+            self.configured = False
         return settings
 
 
@@ -51,6 +55,15 @@ def __init__(self, flask_app=None, *args, **kwargs):
     def __reduce_args__(self):
         return (self.flask_app, ) + super(Celery, self).__reduce_args__()
 
+    def init_app(self, app, config=None):
+        self.flask_app = app
+        if config is not None:
+            self.conf.update(config)
+        else:
+            self.conf.update(app.config)
+        print self.conf
+        self.configured = True
+
 
 
 def to_Option(option, typemap={"int": int, "float": float, "string": str}):
@@ -111,6 +124,7 @@ def run(self, **kwargs):
     @cached_property
     def worker(self):
         from celery.bin.celeryd import WorkerCommand
+        app = current_celery()
         return WorkerCommand(app=current_celery())