Support Railway

[ehmatthes]

Note: Tabling this until after some broader work, which would be more difficult to carry out once supporting more platforms.

Railway has what looks like a good free trial policy, with no cc required until choosing a paid plan. It does require a GitHub account in order to sign up, but doesn't require a GH repo as an intermediate deployment step. It does have a CLI.

• See tweet 5/25 that inspired this attempt.

Tasks:

• [x] Make a new support_railway branch.
• [ ] Push the sample blog project to Railway without dsd.
• [ ] Create a deploy_railway.py file in utils/.
• [ ] Add railway as an optional target in simple_deploy.py.
• [ ] Add a confirmation that this is in "proof of concept" phase.
• [ ] Adapt one of the deploy_xx.py scripts to target railway:
  • [ ] Configuration step ___.

[ehmatthes]

Push to Railway without dsd - through project creation

• Making an account
  • email, verify
• docs
• Dashboard > agree TOS
• Install CLI: curl -fsSL https://railway.app/install.sh | sh
• railway login
  • Error logging in to CLI. Please try again; note nix railway login
  • CLI output: No dice? Try railway login --browserless
  • Gives an authentication link, with a pairing code
  • CLI login successful
  • railway init
  • Prompts for empty project or template, empty is default.
  • Asks for project name -> blog.
  • Opens browser tab with blog project showing.

[ehmatthes]

Push without dsd -cont

• Modify project for deployment
  • Add gunicorn, psycopg2, dj-database-url, whitenoise
  • Add Procfile
  • Add runtime.txt
• Commit changes
• railway up?
  • Laying tracks in the clouds... lstat Library: no such file or directory

[ehmatthes]

cont

• Joining discord server
  • Why do you need permission to know what servers I'm in, and join servers for me?
• Connecting GitHub account
  • Why do you need to "know which resources you can access"? "Act on your behalf?"

[ehmatthes]

Trying to push after rw cli #224 fixed, and I can't create a project with railway init:

• railway init
  • There was a problem creating the project. -> But, the project appears on my RW web dashboard.
  • railway list -> 'Project not found'
  • railway login -> Error logging in to CLI. Please try again.
  • log out through cli, log in, error, log out dashboard, log in cli, browser login form, login, email confirm, logs in dashboard but cli hangs.
  • [ ] File an issue. Maybe my account is in a weird space because of creating numerous projects on free account, but really non-specific error messages, and half-completed tasks that I requested; ie projects in dashboard but errors in cli. Click on project, 404.

[ehmatthes]

Resuming work 9/2/22

• I'd like to add Railway support now that Platform.sh development has slowed due to their 2 project per day limitation, and Heroku is about to change.
• Logging into my dashboard, I still see 4 ghost projects that I created months ago and then destroyed. Clicking on any of these projects shows a 404. railway list shows these same projects.
• Updated CLI from 1.7.3 to 2.0.10.
• railway list no longer shows ghost projects, but dashboard still does.