Could you send me a screenshot of the project structure?

not exactly sure what a project structure is but these are js the files composed for the bot

thats exactly what I was looking for

neat, looks good

do you have this on GitHub?

no

There's 2 ways you can go about deploying this on Railway:

1. via GitHub (recommended)
2. via CLI

GitHub would require a lot more setup while the CLI is faster

Either way is fine, it's up to you

If you already know how to use GitHub then I'd recommend the GitHub way now

otherwise i'd recommend the CLI way just to get it up and running, then you can figure out GitHub later

ok tysm i dont rlly know much abt github yet so ill use cli for now

thanks for the help <:salute:1137099685417451530>

no problemo

wait sorry what does cli stand for?

I'm assuming you dont have the CLI installed

command line interface

What operating system are you using?

windows

could open the search bar, type in cmd and hit enter, Command Prompt should pop up

and then?

try entering:

npm --version

i'm trying to see if you have npm installed or not

if you do then we can install railway's cli via npm

if not then i'm going to give you a different command to install something called scoop which you can use to install railway cli

just lmk what it says

yea i dont have npm

oh okay

in that case we can install scoop ()

in the command prompt window, try entering:

powershell

this'll append PS a the far left of the command line, let me know if you see that

what this does is we're switching from command prompt over to powershell because scoop's install command requires us to use powershell

yea done do i just install it?

perfect!

the next step is the installation step

you'll want to copy and paste this in there:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression

-# Note: dont just run random commands that people give you online, its bad security practice, you can copy and paste the command directly from the scoop's website via the link I shared above

done

neat, now can you try running

scoop install railway

finished

now can you try running:

railway --version

just to verify that Railway's CLI was installed

this good?

yes that is exactly what we needed

Railway's CLI is installed now, so we're almost done

you'll want to run

railway login

and follow the steps

this will log you in on the CLI so you can upload your project, once you're done, run:

railway whoami

so you can confirm you're logged in

done

perfect, now switching to

you'll want to make a project if you havent already, and then an empty service

we need to do this so we have a destination for your project when we upload it

the empty service will be its destination

finished

perfect, now on window's file explorer you'll want to go to your project files

right here

once you're there, do you see this top bar?

mine says "Downloads/SomeProject", yours will say something else

you'll want to click on it, erase everything and type cmd

this will open command prompt on the destination of your project

oki done

now just to make sure we're on the right location, try typing dir in there

then make sure it shows your main.py, requirements.txt and so on

we dont want to accidentally upload your entire computer to railway, we just want your project, so its important we make sure its at the right location

its showing this instead

ah, you're on your C drive, good thing we checked, that would unironically have tried uploading your entire computer 💀

I'm not sure how that happened <:Thinking:1360710341239242762> it should've opened command prompt at your project's location

should i replicate file and move the entire thing in a separate location?

no matter, can you go back to your project folder and then do the same thing I asked you before but instead of erasing everything and typing cmd, just copy it

no no you're fine

done

if the file path itself isn't sensitive, could you paste it here?

C:\Users\X-Game\OneDrive\Documents\UKM (2).zip\UKM\Attendance

🤨 .zip

ah its a zip file

is that the folder's name?

yea you're gonna need to unzip that first

done

C:\Users\X-Game\OneDrive\Documents\UKM\Attendance

awesome, and that Attendance folder holds your main.py and requirements.txt right?

yes

my bad, im back, had to go help a friend with something

no worries

now go back to command prompt and type:

cd C:\Users\X-Game\OneDrive\Documents\UKM\Attendance

this will take you to that folder

feel free to run dir again to make sure you see main.py and requirements.txt

yea done

nice

now, you can run railway link

run through the steps and select the empty service we created earlier

once you've done that, you can run railway up to upload your project to railway

do i put this in the cmd?

yea

this is what im seeing after typing it

yea you're gonna wanna select the project you created earlier

which i assume is that one right there

then the service you created earlier

done <:salute:1137099685417451530>

niceee

now final step

to upload it to that service

then you can go back to the UI and watch it deploy

hopefully Railway will automatically detect the project structure and you wont have to do anything else

but otherwise if it fails we might need some more manual configuration

no its building it rn

tysm for guiding me through it step by step i heavily appreciate it <:salute:1137099685417451530>

its online now

it's no problem at all

im just happy i could help

the bot as well?

mhm

this is my first college project it means a lot <33

nice congratulations on hosting your first college project

I'd heavily heavily heavily recommend learning GitHub and using GitHub for future deploys, it's the standard way to not only store your projects but also deploy them to any other hosting service like Railway

but for now the CLI should work fine, if you update your code then just run railway up again

(make sure you run it from a command prompt that is set to your project folder)

note taken

<:salute:1137099685417451530>

oh sorry one last thing is there any way for me to stop/pause it? I don't want to use up all my free credits in one go <:mildpanic:804271964587819059>

there's no way to pause it through the UI unfortunately, but you can achieve the same thing by going to the service on railway's website, clicking on the 3 dots and clicking "Remove" - if you ever want it running again you can just go to the removed deployment, click on the 3 dots and click "Redeploy" (or just run railway up again)

ok thats it for me again tysm you've been really sweet <:salute:1137099685417451530>

I'm happy I could help 🙂