Railway•14mo ago

Run a command in production (rake)

Hi there, newcomer from Heroku here — I need to run a command in my production environment (in this instance rake db:seed but other times I need a console i.e. rails c). On Heroku I would do heroku run rake db:seed, how would I do this on Railway?

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Percy•14mo ago

Project ID: 8f20bec2-837e-46f0-8721-83eb63749406

richard_21848•14mo ago

8f20bec2-837e-46f0-8721-83eb63749406

Brody•14mo ago

railway run rake db:seed most likely https://docs.railway.app/develop/cli

MantisInABox•14mo ago

Make sure you do - railway link select the project - railway service select the actual service - railway shell to inject your env variables - railway run rake db:seed to seed your db

Brody•14mo ago

going the extra mile

richard_21848•14mo ago

ok rad, this was slightly more complicated because my app runs in a container locally (and doesn't work outside it), in case it's any use to others I created a new compose service:

  railway:
    entrypoint: bin/railway_entrypoint
    env_file: .railway.env
    tty: true
    volumes:
      - .:/rails

  railway:
    entrypoint: bin/railway_entrypoint
    env_file: .railway.env
    tty: true
    volumes:
      - .:/rails

with bin/railway_entrypoint:

#!/bin/bash -e

bash <(curl -fsSL cli.new) -b ./bin -y > /dev/null
bin/railway $@

#!/bin/bash -e

bash <(curl -fsSL cli.new) -b ./bin -y > /dev/null
bin/railway $@

and added .railway.env with a RAILWAY_TOKEN in . Then it's docker compose run --rm railway run rake db:seed Thanks for confirming this is the recommended way!

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