Error – RuntimeError: Working outside of application context. in flask app when adding this line “db.create_all()”
The error occurs because you are trying to create the database tables outside of a Flask application context. To resolve this, you can create the database tables within the if __name__ == "__main__" block, after the application has been created and has been added to the context.
from flask import Flask, render_template
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:///features.db'
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
class Feature(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
image_url = db.Column(db.String(200), nullable=False)
feature_page_url = db.Column(db.String(200), nullable=False)
title = db.Column(db.String(200), nullable=False)
description = db.Column(db.Text, nullable=False)
@app.route("/")
def home():
features = Feature.query.all()
return render_template("home.html", features=features)
if __name__ == "__main__":
with app.app_context():
db.create_all()
app.run(debug=True)
