is there any way to indefinitely suspend a service?

Without removing a deployment, I just want to turn off a service to test it locally (the deployment would interfere with it if I test local). I don't see an option to do this. Am I missing something?

N/A

there is no such feature, only removing deployment

but i will say if your local tests can interfere with the app running on railway, youre doing something wrong

It's a discord bot. The only way I can test is by it connecting with Discord's API, so both of them have real effects.

then you want a test bot and a prod bot

If I remove a deployment, do I basically have to push a dummy commit to the GitHub repo to redeploy?

yes

^

In that case I'd have to set up a whole new bot and its token, which is definitely the best practice but I'm too lazy for that haha

But I suppose I should

you should, ruining tests with the main (production) bot token is big bad

I recommend this too

here's a good way to do it, or at least how I do it

so i have a bat file which basically starts the bot
in my bot i have the bot check for a certain file which I've .gitignored
if it finds it i know it's running locally, so I then switch out the bot token with my test bot token
otherwise if it can't find it ( it's running from railway ) then i use the main bot's token

so running the bat file will run it on my test bot
and running the same command on railway ( npm start ) will run the test bot

lol

idk if this is standard, and idk if there's a better way

but that's how I do it and it works for me

in my bots code i check RAILWAY_ENVIRONMENT == "production" if so it will use the production token, otherwise it will use local token

fragly is kinda doing the same thing, but in a very round-about way

what's RAILWAY_ENVIRONMENT?

is that something in env?

dang

that's neat, the reason I'm not doing something like that btw is because I might want to host the main bot locally
in that case I just remove the file ( named dev )

Ah okay gotcha

I just hate messing with token stuff, but I suppose I will go ahead and do that

Thank you guys :)

npp

i can run my bot locally and on railway, the code handles token switching by itself, the above was pseudo code

oh okay

Right so you just hotswap the token when running locally?

Yeah that's not that difficult really then

yep basically, super easy, way easier than checking for a file

yea fair point

I'll keep my file though

disk access go brrr

hehe

Discord permissions are just insanely annoying to fiddle with

Or I'm just dumb

wdyym, it's just checkboxes

por qué no los dos

Yeah but I always forget which permissions are necessary for my bot

So I just check admin usually lol

fair, normally I just make the bot admin when it's like a dedicated bot for a server

yea

Hopping in here to say that it is possible, remove the latest deployment and turn off the branch trigger in settings

New deployments won't be made if the branch trigger is off