N/A

I believe your app is always copied into the /app directory. You could add a cd instruction to your start command to change directory to that folder

use ls to verify the folder contents

Would that be something like this?

Yeah I must be doing something wrong - cd app doesn't work as above, or as the custom start command. <:ferrisMelt:1286058037592719392>

can you provide the error you are getting?

For the nixpacks config deploy or the custom start command deploy?

For the custom start command of cd app:

remove the nixpacks config and your start command, let's start over

Yep, done 😅

okay now what error are you getting

No error - everything runs fine, I just can't access the /static directory

This is the path I'm using to open the file:

let file = File::open("static/changelog.md")?;

what error

"No such file or directory"

I previously used this in a custom Dockerfile, but decided I'd try moving to Nixpacks since it was the only reason I had a custom Dockerfile 😅

Dockerfile > Nixpacks

Really?

Dockerfiles give you far more control over your build

I mean my Dockerfile was terrible - no caching, so it's 5 minute builds (on Rust) using the Dockerfile and 20 seconds on Nixpacks

oh rust

Yeah

change your pre-deploy command to ls -la

Huh

lol

do it via a railway.json file

Something like this?

yes

Alright done - it's building now

Also since it's definitely more relevant now - Project ID: 6fe4a25c-d387-4b3c-9e03-07bde35b7c5d

why's it more relevant now

interesting

Since the bot asks us for it whenever a help thread is created, I guess 😅

Hm looks like it's navigating down to where the binary is stored

can you try using an absolute path? /app/static/changelog.md

Alright, I'll try that now

Yeah, it's still a "No such file or directory"

your app is being ran in a slim image, meaning no assets but the bin are copied

Ahhhh, that makes sense

Is there any way to change that?

maybe, put this in a nixpacks.toml file -

[start]
    runImage = 'ubuntu:jammy'
    onlyIncludeFiles = ['./bin/the-sprongler', './static']

You're an absolute lifesaver Brody - thank you so much for your help! <:shiba_heart:1017513599478005912>

It works perfectly now 😄

awsome!

!s