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A 'SQLAlchemy' instance has already been registered on this Flask app. Import and use that instance instead. #557

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If was curious about the way you made the unit tests in flask. I have a similar project with a very close architecture. I have a much more recent version of flask, flask-sqlalchemy and etc. I was curious if anyone was having problem with this project related to unit testing.

While creating an instance of the app in the test, it raise an error that RuntimeError: A 'SQLAlchemy' instance has already been registered on this Flask app. Import and use that instance instead.

From my understanding, when using flask test --coverage, it will create an instance of the app, than run the tests that try to create their own instances of the app. but in the create_app function, it tries to init the db with db.init_app(app) and it seems that, without surprise, there is a runtime error raised, because the database used is already in used, in this case, its a in-memory db. Something wrong or is this part of the newer flask and incompatible with this project?

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