yeah docs around this topic are lacking

My man brody! Thx for the help

1. Create a new service in your existing project

2. Add any needed variables

3. Set it up to deploy from the repo that contains the file / script / etc that you want to run

4. In the service settings, set the start command
   the start command will be what's ran on the set schedule

5. Set the schedule in the service settings

Step 1 and 2 are done. Service created and variables added.

For step 3, I have the repo connected. I take it thats all here.

For step 4, what would the start command be? saying I have the sh file in /cron/.

in your case it would be sh /cron/pull_[data.sh](data.sh)

Also would you recommend it be done via a docker container or is that not necessary here

pull_data.sh runs a python script.

not necessary as runs of the cron job don't rebuild anything

nixpacks should detect that its a python app so you should have python

Gotcha. Quick Q: Without a docker container how would I handle passing in all the dependencies (requirements.txt)

And passing in the required files (Docker's COPY /logic/pull_data/ .)

nixpacks handles that

Okay let me give it a proper shot

Thank you

Okay so the cron job worked (so really all is good).

I'm just wondering, should there be things here in the deployments tab?

yes, but that doesnt look like it worked lol

send a link to it please?

Sure what would you like me to link?

the url

This one? https://railway.app/project/92c5e847-f796-4ffc-b29f-0c2a9bc86322/service/856b3fb1-d74c-42ca-bced-1b48d819aff2/schedule

Quick Q: No one else who can see this chat can click into this?

correct

You can just see it with your magic powers

gotcha

only you and team

Perfect

Quick FYI, the cron job just hit again, successfully

Seems like the cron part is working. Not sure about the deployment tab though

its running a deploy from 14 mins ago

what about the deploy from 3 mins ago?

from the deploy logs, it looks like you might need to set a root dir

Okay. I start that service trying it with docker file so I just created a new one

https://railway.app/project/92c5e847-f796-4ffc-b29f-0c2a9bc86322/service/10f2c81c-2aca-47da-bcb9-a2cd7a881b82/schedule

^

Just added / as the root

Lets see if that does it

/ is already the default

have you read the deploy logs?

Deploy logs appear empty

sorry, i meant build logs

Ah yes I did. But no errors in there.

Can you see them?

yes there is

yes i can

It ends here. only info level on my ui

have you read the logs though?

Sorry I don't want to be missing something but when I look through the build logs, all I see is that screenshot

Only info level

please read the actual content of the logs, dont worry if they are red or not

I read them. All I see is "

[Region: us-west1]

Using Nixpacks

context: 2b843b44d67edc7bfb5e5c611eba9555

Nixpacks build failed

Nixpacks was unable to generate a build plan for this app.

Please check the documentation for supported languages: https://nixpacks.com

The contents of the app directory are:
.cursorignore
.dockerignore
deploy/
services/
contracts/
v3alts/ setup.py mt5/ shared/ jasper/ admin/ tests/ lib/ .gitignore init.py datasci/
"

^

I thought I did with "/". Wouldn't that work?

i feel like you aren't reading the build logs?

my cron job pulls files from other dir's in the root directory.

where is it located

Are you seeing something I'm not in this?

the cron jobs are located in services/cron/

I'm just trying to test services/cron/test/run_test.sh

does the script need files from outside of the services folder

Yes

it needs files from /lib/ and /jasper/

thenn your start command should be sh /services/cron/test/run_[test.sh](test.sh)

Gotcha. I went ahead and did this but still get build failed 😦

Sorry for wasting your time

Let me mess around with this and see if I can fix it. I'm probably just messing up something stupid.

add a nixpacks.toml to the cron folder with this in it -

[phases.setup]
    nixPkgs = ['python3']

the set a service variable NIXPACKS_CONFIG_FILE=/services/cron

Hey boss. I tried this nix approach with your nixpacks.toml but was getting a file doesn't exist error.

Out of curiousity, is it not recommended to do it via docker file? I was able to get it work this way but wanted to get your thoughts.

Dockerfile is perfectly fine

Okay great. Does this screenshot look okay? I just wanted to make sure that the deployments are properly closing down after they finish.

I'm scared that they're staying open and every 5 minutes another container is opening up (and charging)

Here's that link in case you need it: https://railway.app/project/92c5e847-f796-4ffc-b29f-0c2a9bc86322/service/1eb1b172-8a40-4084-a91d-8b89360ffa9e/schedule

looks like they are exiting after around 10s according to the time on the right side

That's what I was thinking

But when I open up the log (of one that already completed) it still says active and doesn't say it stopped container or anything like that.

that's fine

Okay. Hmm. So it is closing and not charging for these containers?

correct

Amazing. Thanks Brody

Sorry for being a bit of a dud when it came to the Nix stuff

I barely got Docker down haha

no problem!

Tip jar? 👀

wdym?

Last time I asked if I could tip you when you helped me out, you said no

Hoping you've changed your mind

I feel bad getting your assistance for free

I'm still gonna say no, railway pays me lol

Fair

Thanks boss

happy to help

!s