A step-by-step guide for migrating applications from Heroku to Railway, covering GitHub repo deployment, importing environment variables, setting up database services (PostgreSQL and Redis), configuring domains, and using the Railway CLI. Uses a Rails 7 app as a concrete example but applies to any language or runtime.
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What's RailwayWhat's covered in this guide?Pre-requisitesSteps1. Your First Deploy2. Importing Environment Variables3. Thinking in ServicesCommon Workflows on RailwayStanding InvitationSort: