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fix: add Redis setup instructions and handle missing Redis connection gracefully #776

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Handle Redis connection errors in gap_analysis.py
rashmivemuri Mar 3, 2026
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Add service startup instructions for local development
rashmivemuri Mar 3, 2026
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions application/utils/gap_analysis.py
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Expand Up @@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ def schedule(standards: List[str], database):
logger.info(f"Gap analysis result for {standards_hash} does not exist")

conn = redis.connect()
if conn is None:
logger.error(
"Redis is not available. Please run 'make start-containers' first."
)
return {
"error": "Redis is not available. Please run 'make start-containers' first."
}
gap_analysis_results = conn.get(standards_hash)
if (
gap_analysis_results
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions docs/developmentSetup.md
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Expand Up @@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ You can run `make migrate-upgrade` first and then `make upstream-sync`

## Running locally

First, start the required services (Redis and Neo4j) with:

`make start-containers`

You can run the backend with `make dev-flask`. At the time of writing the backend URL is `http://localhost:5000` by default.

You can run the frontend with `yarn start`. This should open a browser tab at the application's front page and also automatically reload the page whenever changes are detected. At the time of writing the frontend URL is `http://localhost:9001` by default.
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