Hey, just a few question to help me debug this -

- Have you deployed the changes after setting the service variables, if you haven't they will be highlighted blue and you will need to click the Deploy button.
- Are you using a Dockerfile or Nixpacks?

I deployed the changes and im not using nixpacks or dockerfile

On Railway it would be one or the other, meaning you are most likely using nixpacks

But can you confirm this for me, open up your latest deployment and go into the details tab.

the builder says nixpack

Thanks, can you share the specific error(s) you are getting?

this is supposed to happen when there is no env variable, but in local it's working good, im using turbo btw

that is a log from railway

You are having zod load from process.env correct?

yeah i think so

Can you try removing / commenting out the dotenv lines?

like this?

Exactly!

alright im deploying to see

still getting the error

Would you mind sending a screenshot of your service variables? no need to unhide anything.

here

I'm honestly stumped, something in your codebase is "unsetting" them, i'm just not sure what that could be. I will have to leave this to a team member, perhaps they will have more ideas.

Oh no problem, thanks anyway

Does this have something to do with my issue?

It does not.

Super weird, i have another deploy with turborepo as well and the envs are working

Can you share a link to the service this is happening in? I'll check to see if your workload is actually getting those variables injected properly

any updates on this? I believe the issue is turbo.json, because within it i specified .env as a global dependency, making it work on my local. however im guessing railway does something different. im getting the exact same issue using zod.

here is the turbo.json in a specific app, so "/apps/<app-name>"

i solved the issue, by downgrading turbo to: "1.13.3"

this is my tubo.json:

Railway does not create an .env file for you, instead the environment variables are injected into the environment.

So if your code is only looking to load variables from a file your variables would appear to be missing.

This looks like what could be causing your issue -

https://turbo.build/repo/docs/crafting-your-repository/using-environment-variables#strict-mode

I'm running into the same issue with the latest version of Turborepo—it just won't read environment variables. I tried using "turbo run build --env-mode=loose," but no luck. I've dealt with this problem before and had to roll back to an older version of Turborepo to fix it. Now, I'm stuck and can't find a solution.

Have you tried specifying your needed envs in your turbo.json ?

I had the same problem, I fixed it by adding globalEnv with the required variables to turbo.json

Hey, just encountered this issue. A quick solution is to set envMode to loose on your turbo.json, but the long term solution (as suggested by brody) is to list environment variables needed on each task.


The turborepo docs on this are pretty good: https://turborepo.com/docs/crafting-your-repository/using-environment-variables#strict-mode