app/worker.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from flask import Flask
 from misc import currDay, datetime, time, timedelta
 from db import db, Period, Event
 from create_events import createEvents
-from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
+from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BlockingScheduler
 
 basedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 
@@ -18,20 +18,18 @@ app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] =\
 app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS'] = False
 db.init_app(app)
 
-# Calculate the next time the function should run (at the :59 mark of the next hour)
-now = datetime.now()
-next_hour = now.replace(hour=now.hour + 1, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
-next_run = next_hour - timedelta(minutes=1)
-
-# Create scheduler and add job to call createEvents at the specified time
-scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
-scheduler.add_job(createEvents, 'date', run_date=next_run, args=[db, currDay, Period, Event])
-scheduler.start()
-
-# Call createEvents on initial launch of the script
+# Define function to run create_events with app context
+def run_create_events():
     with app.app_context():
         createEvents(db, currDay, Period, Event)
 
-# Keep the program running indefinitely
-while True:
-    time.sleep(60)
+# Call createEvents on initial launch of the script
+run_create_events()
+
+
+# Set up scheduler to run function at 59th minute of every hour
+scheduler = BlockingScheduler()
+scheduler.add_job(run_create_events, 'cron', minute=59)
+
+# Start scheduler
+scheduler.start()