Removed scheduler since it was unused and updated way to run app locally

Author: sandlerben

Procfile

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 web: gunicorn manage:app
-worker: sh -c "python -u manage.py run_worker & python -u manage.py run_scheduler"
+worker: python -u manage.py run_worker

README.md

@@ -16,41 +16,61 @@ A Flask application template with the boilerplate code already done for you.
 
 ## Setting up
 
-1. Clone the repo
+##### Clone the repo
 
     ```
     $ git clone https://github.com/hack4impact/flask-base.git
     $ cd flask-base
     ```
 
-2. Initialize a virtualenv
+##### Initialize a virtualenv
 
     ```
     $ pip install virtualenv
     $ virtualenv env
     $ source env/bin/activate
     ```
 
-3. Install the dependencies
+##### Install the dependencies
 
     ```
     $ pip install -r requirements/common.txt
     $ pip install -r requirements/dev.txt
     ```
 
-4. Create the database
+##### Other dependencies for running locally
+
+You need to install [Foreman](https://ddollar.github.io/foreman/) and [Redis](http://redis.io/). Chances are, these commands will work:
+
+```
+$ gem install foreman
+```
+
+Mac (using [homebrew](http://brew.sh/)):
+
+```
+$ brew install redis
+```
+
+Linux:
+
+```
+$ sudo apt-get install redis-server
+```
+
+##### Create the database
 
     ```
     $ python manage.py recreate_db
     ```
 
-5. Other setup (e.g. creating roles in database)
+##### Other setup (e.g. creating roles in database)
 
     ```
     $ python manage.py setup_dev
     ```
 
-6. [Optional] Add fake data to the database
+##### [Optional] Add fake data to the database
 
     ```
     $ python manage.py add_fake_data
@@ -60,9 +80,7 @@ A Flask application template with the boilerplate code already done for you.
 
 ```
 $ source env/bin/activate
-$ python manage.py runserver
- * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
- * Restarting with stat
+$ foreman start -f Local
 ```
 
 ## Project Structure

app/utils.py

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-from redis import Redis
-from flask import url_for, current_app
-from rq_scheduler import Scheduler
+from flask import url_for
 
 
 def register_template_utils(app):
@@ -20,13 +18,3 @@ def is_hidden_field(field):
 
 def index_for_role(role):
     return url_for(role.index)
-
-
-def get_rq_scheduler(app=current_app):
-    conn = Redis(
-        host=app.config['RQ_DEFAULT_HOST'],
-        port=app.config['RQ_DEFAULT_PORT'],
-        db=0,
-        password=app.config['RQ_DEFAULT_PASSWORD']
-    )
-    return Scheduler(connection=conn)  # Get a scheduler for the default queue

manage.py

@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 import os
-import time
 from app import create_app, db
 from app.models import User, Role
 from redis import Redis
 from rq import Worker, Queue, Connection
-from rq_scheduler.scheduler import Scheduler
-from rq_scheduler.utils import setup_loghandlers
 from flask.ext.script import Manager, Shell
 from flask.ext.migrate import Migrate, MigrateCommand
 
@@ -97,31 +94,5 @@ def run_worker():
         worker = Worker(map(Queue, listen))
         worker.work()
 
-
-@manager.command
-def run_scheduler():
-    """Initializes a rq scheduler."""
-    conn = Redis(
-        host=app.config['RQ_DEFAULT_HOST'],
-        port=app.config['RQ_DEFAULT_PORT'],
-        db=0,
-        password=app.config['RQ_DEFAULT_PASSWORD']
-    )
-
-    setup_loghandlers('INFO')
-    scheduler = Scheduler(connection=conn, interval=60.0)
-    for _ in xrange(10):
-        try:
-            scheduler.run()
-        except ValueError as exc:
-            if exc.message == 'There\'s already an active RQ scheduler':
-                scheduler.log.info(
-                    'An RQ scheduler instance is already running. Retrying in '
-                    '%d seconds.', 10,
-                )
-                time.sleep(10)
-            else:
-                raise exc
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     manager.run()

requirements/common.txt

@@ -25,4 +25,3 @@ webassets==0.10.1
 wsgiref==0.1.2
 redis==2.10.5
 rq==0.5.6
--e git://github.com/ui/rq-scheduler.git@4e6837bb6a6e5be4ca364ff9d6218c2b2153009a#egg=rq-scheduler