App not detecting environment variables on start
trackingtrade
PROOP

4 months ago

I'm trying to deploy a monorepo with pnpm workspaces and nextJS web app.

The database is in packages/db, and I'm trying to use drizzle-kit to run migrations upon app start.

For some reason, it doesn't pick up on any of my environment variables, and it fails because it cannot find my DATABASE_URL.

I've spent way to much time on this, and it doesn't seem to be anything on my side. This is stupid. It shouldn't be this hard to deploy an app on railway.

Here's my railway.json:

{
  "$schema": "https://railway.app/railway.schema.json",
  "build": {
    "builder": "RAILPACK",
    "watchPatterns": [
      "apps/web/**",
      "packages/**",
      "turbo.json",
      "package.json",
      "pnpm-lock.yaml",
      "pnpm-workspace.yaml",
      "railpack.json",
      "railway.json"
    ]
  },
  "deploy": {
    "numReplicas": 1,
    "sleepApplication": false,
    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 10,
    "startCommand": "pnpm db:migrate --filter=@lg-monorepo/db && pnpm --filter=web start"
  }
}
$10 Bounty

2 Replies

noahd
EMPLOYEE

4 months ago

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Status changed to Open noahd • 4 months ago

samgordon
PRO

4 months ago

Hi,

This likely won't fix your issue but I'd like to note that migration steps belong in pre-deploy steps.

https://docs.railway.com/guides/pre-deploy-command

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