hi! i have a question on testing flows. if i have a flow that’s scheduled to run once a week, am i able to still run it locally using

flow.run()

? i’m trying to create an integration test now and it’s just stalling so i wonder if it’s because the schedule that’s attached to it is waiting until the actual start time.

Yes, that's correct. You would need to comment out the schedule element of the Flow object to run it immediately ad hoc, or trigger it via UI Quick Run

You can do

flow.run(run_on_schedule=False)

, but running with a backend is preferred

got it. so i have a task that usually runs on a schedule and uses the ECSTaskExecutor. to run it locally in my integration test, i’d need to set

run_on_schedule=False

and then what do i set for

runner_cls

? i tried to pass in

LocalExecutor

and it didn’t work

Do you mean the ECS RunConfig? Because

flow.run()

does respect RunConfig. Only Flows run from Prefect Cloud do

ohhh yes got it i was confused. i left that runner_cls parameter empty and it seemed the test worked. thanks!

Yeah that should work.