You would want to have a new Railway service for every job you need to run, and then you can set the start command in the service settings and whatever flags you want on that start command.

Thank you! I want to avoid multiple services, though. It seems it’s not possible currently. The solution I’ve decided on is to run a single service regularly and check the time, effectively duplicating the cron functionality.

May I ask why you want to avoid multiple services? there is no cost associated with simply having the service, and if you use Railways cron scheduler you only pay for the resources used whenever the task runs.

I have 4 different tasks which perform almost identical operations which can be defined by a single variable. So I’d rather have them represented as something like a crontab file or set of env vars, rather than manually creating and maintaining many services.

I'm going to run this in a single service, driven by env var configuration, instead of using cron and manually duplicating services for every entry: https://github.com/jhud/railway-scheduler

So my configuration looks like this:

SCHEDULE=[

{"time":"08:30", "job": "get", "param": "https://www.google.com/api/foo/"},

{"time":"09:30", "job": "get", "param": "https://www.blah.com/api/bar/"},

] python main.py

I would love it if Railway cron could just give me that one extra parameter next to the cron config, then I could get rid of the scheduler looping and this custom scheduling code.

That's not something Railway supports at this time, sorry.