Check connections outside app factory

Check the connections in the wsgi.py file, outside of the `create_app`
application factory to avoid issues with tests failing due to test app
not initialising because of missing connections in the test
environment.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/wsgi.py b/wsgi.py
index baf6ce5..40c4473 100644
--- a/wsgi.py
+++ b/wsgi.py
@@ -1,8 +1,19 @@
 """Run the application"""
 
 from qc_app import create_app, instance_path
+from qc_app.check_connections import check_db, check_redis
 
-app = create_app(instance_path())
+def check_and_build_app():
+    # Setup the app
+    appl = create_app(instance_path())
+
+    # Check connections
+    check_db(appl.config["SQL_URI"])
+    check_redis(appl.config["REDIS_URL"])
+    return appl
+
+app = check_and_build_app()
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # Run the app
     app.run()