a month ago
In my successful deployments today (2026-02-05), I have a predeploy command in my JSON railway config meant to handle DB migrations.
The command is this:
echo 'Running migrations...' && ./goose -dir migrations postgres $DATABASE_URL upHowever, I don't see "Running migrations..." anywhere in the build or deployment logs and noticed that my db was unaffected. Therefore, I feel like I'm unable to troubleshoot issues with the db migration step.
Example deployment/build: dba1c8bd-6a80-40ac-9d9b-cdbcbbf20e18
Am I missing where I would find log output from the pre-deploy command?
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a month ago
Check your railway.json format ,preDeployCommand should be an array, not a string.
Should be "preDeployCommand": ["echo 'Running migrations...' && ./goose -dir migrations postgres $DATABASE_URL up"]
12 days ago
That's not what the JSON schema indicates. It specifies that the preDeployCommand can be a string or an array of strings. However, I did switch my config over to it being an array of strings and saw different behavior:
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