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this is not supported config, you would need to run two railway services, or do something manually with GNU's parallel -

hm. not sure i understand exactly.

just to restate… I have one github repo with two distinct services that I want to run (if it matters, I also want the both of them to be able to connect to a postgres db). since they are both kotlin apps… i need to configure their build AND deploy steps.

what i understand from "this is not supported config" is that I can't do that with a railway.json file and I can just remove that file, and just use the railway UI directly to set each build and deploy script?

running two apps in a single service is not something thats natively supported like it is on heroku for example, on railway you would run those two apps as separate services typically.

do the two apps need access to the same fs?

so maybe im saying the worng thing here. but. i dont want two apps in a single service. I want two ktor instances in a single project. so. two services in a project.

those two services should have access to my postgres db.

to add some more color to this. I essentially have a github repo at the moment that works fine with railway and this service is a rest api that inserts stuff into my db. now I want to perform some work on the db at various times, so i created another service in my repo that will do that.

then I'm not understanding the blocker here?

so i can have two services in a single project, right?

if so. then my question is how do i take my single service railway.json and update it so that it supports two services.

of course, I'm confident you already knew this

why does this have anything to do with railway.json?

how is your project structured?

not your railway project

because in the railway UI, for my service1 (existing) I'm using railway.json so in the UI it says this:

so now I created another service. but its automatically taking the start command from railway.json

so it also says server/build/libs... when instead I want service2 to have a start command of server2/build/libs

my project is structured as such

server <--- current railway
androidApp <--- my app, nothing to do with railway
server2 <---- my new ktor service i want to deploy to railway

does anything in server need access to anything outside of it's folder

nope. each service (server and server2) is self contained. but they both need to read from the same db.

why not set the root directory to /server in your service settings

then you can add a new railway.json to server2

oh. I thought I could only have ony railway.json

that makes sense. lol

each server directory just holds it's own railway.json

you could also have server.railway.json and server2.railway.json in the root and set that in the service settings too

I thought I needed to do something like this (made up the field names of course… but this is what i was looking for)

{
    "$schema": "https://schema.up.railway.app/railway.schema.json",
    "services" : [
        {
            "name": "server",
            "build": {
                "builder": "NIXPACKS",
                "buildCommand": "./gradlew -p server clean build -x check -x test"
            },
            "deploy": {
                "startCommand": "java $JAVA_OPTS -jar server/build/libs/*-all.jar"
            }      
        },
        {
            "name": "service2",
            "build": {
                "builder": "NIXPACKS",
                "buildCommand": "./gradlew -p server2 clean build -x check -x test"
            },
            "deploy": {
                "startCommand": "java $JAVA_OPTS -jar server2/build/libs/*-all.jar"
            }
        }
    ]
}

i think ill just put the railway.json in each service folder. lemme see if that does the trick…

actually. im going to go for

server.railway.json and server2.railway.json in the root and set that in the service settings too

where do i set that?

in the service settings

ah railway config file

I think maybe what confused me was that I didn't have that filled out at all in service1

and so i thought that maybe the config file was something different than the railway.json i had created

right because the default file name is picked up automatically

but it looks like railway will use railway.json even if i dont configure it

okay okay. yeah. thats sensible. just threw me off since i wasn't explicit about it.

hence why i thought i needed everything configured in this single magical railway.json

it works! woot woot!

ive got a REST api with a publicly accessibly URL and I've got a private kotlin service that is essentially a cronjob service thingy!

now i just gotta connect the db to it (hopefully thats not an issue) and I should be good to go. WOOT WOOT.

noice

looks like it auto created this service in us-west while all my other stuff lives in us-east

fool me once…