Railway•2y ago

Errors when trying to complete the Getting Started Tutorial

New to Railway and currently going through the start-up guide after getting my domain up-and-running. I'm in the section of the Developing Locally half where I run railway run <cmd> but I get the following errors:

chipv@Hashi7M2J7M3:/mnt/c/Users/chipv/Documents/Railway/nextjs$ railway run cmd
No such file or directory (os error 2)
chipv@Hashi7M2J7M3:/mnt/c/Users/chipv/Documents/Railway/nextjs$ railway run <cmd>
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
chipv@Hashi7M2J7M3:/mnt/c/Users/chipv/Documents/Railway/nextjs$

chipv@Hashi7M2J7M3:/mnt/c/Users/chipv/Documents/Railway/nextjs$ railway run cmd
No such file or directory (os error 2)
chipv@Hashi7M2J7M3:/mnt/c/Users/chipv/Documents/Railway/nextjs$ railway run <cmd>
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
chipv@Hashi7M2J7M3:/mnt/c/Users/chipv/Documents/Railway/nextjs$

Solution:

from the output of railway --help:

run          Run a local command using variables from the active environment

run          Run a local command using variables from the active environment

so for example if you where to normally start your app with npm run start your new command with the cli would be railway run npm run start in the docs <cmd> is used a short placeholder to indicate the command you would normally run to start your app...

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Percy•2y ago

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chipp_zanuff88OP•2y ago

Project ID: 9e770b05-f236-4b56-9694-4a9c6038139a ^ Corrected

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Brody•2y ago

from the output of railway --help:

run          Run a local command using variables from the active environment

run          Run a local command using variables from the active environment

chipp_zanuff88OP•2y ago

I see, that makes things a bit clearer Given that this is the tutorial project and I don't use either Postgres & NextJs for my day-to-day(full disclosure), it's not clear what to use for the <cmd> section

Brody•2y ago

do you have any variables stored in the railway service?

chipp_zanuff88OP•2y ago

Only the variables that were created during the start of the tutorial and first deployment, which I do see

Brody•2y ago

the docs state

When developing locally, it's likely that you'll need environment variables to store sensitive connection strings.

When developing locally, it's likely that you'll need environment variables to store sensitive connection strings.

if you dont need/have variables in your railway service then you simply dont need to use railway run <cmd>

chipp_zanuff88OP•2y ago

Gotcha. The tutorial made it seem like it a necessary step I think we can close this out. Thank you

Brody•2y ago

no problem!

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