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Subject: Seeking Guidance on Loading Environment Variables in Railway for My Go API Deployment

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all doing well. I'm currently working on deploying my Go API on Railway, and I've run into a bit of a challenge. Specifically, I need to figure out how to load environment variables from a .env file in Railway. Locally, I've been able to load these variables successfully.

Here's a snippet of my .env file for reference:

Firebase project ID
FIREBASEPROJECTID=jobs-scraxxxxx-xxxx

Path to your Firebase service account credentials JSON file
FIREBASECREDENTIALSFILE=cred.json

Port for your application (optional, you can use a default port if not specified)
PORT=8080

In my main.go file, I'm loading these environment variables like this:

projectID := os.Getenv("FIREBASEPROJECTID")
credentialsFile := os.Getenv("FIREBASECREDENTIALSFILE")

// Initialize Firestore client using environment variables.
opt := option.WithCredentialsFile(credentialsFile)
firestoreClient, err := firestore.NewClient(context.Background(), projectID, opt)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatalf("Error initializing Firestore client: %v", err)
}

r.GET("/syncFirestore", func(c *gin.Context) {
    handlers.SyncWithFireBase(c, firestoreClient)
})

r.GET("/getJobsFromFirestore", func(c *gin.Context) {
    handlers.GetJobsFromFirestore(c, firestoreClient)
})

Now, the challenge I'm facing is how to load the cred.json file in Railway, as it primarily supports key-value pairs for environment variables.

You can find my GitHub repository with the code here: Jobs-Scraper on GitHub

I would greatly appreciate any guidance or suggestions on how to tackle this issue and successfully deploy my Go API on Railway.

Thank you in advance for your assistance!
Project ID: 455cfb5c-e03f-4d7c-81b7-1e2a12858525

Best regards,
Mabud

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