no connection tab in railway
i keep seeing in the tutrials when they create a database they have the connection tab avilable for them
https://dev.to/nextdev/how-to-connect-railway-app-with-nextjs-using-prisma-1eo8
but i dont have it is railway updated or i got a problem ?
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yea that is outdated, Railway recently changed how their databases works
You can still find the connection string in the "variables" tab as a service variable
optimally what you want to do is make a variable refernece to the variable storing the connection string in whichever project needs to use them
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yea that is outdated, Railway recently changed how their databases works
You can still find the connection string in the "variables" tab as a service variable
optimally what you want to do is make a variable refernece to the variable storing the connection string in whichever project needs to use them
you can do this via the
${{VARIABLE_NAME}} format, read more here: https://docs.railway.app/guides/variables#reference-variablesOh also, using the private connection url is prefered
it lets you communicate with the database over the private network which doesn't count towards egress