New plugin: Railway

[arunsathiya]

Platform or tool

Railway

Relevant links

• https://railway.app/
• https://docs.railway.app/develop/cli

Goal or desired behavior

Authenticate to the Railway platform.

Contribution

• I'd be up for building the plugin myself.

Additional information

No response

[arunsathiya]

I have done a bit of research over the last week:

• I am not seeing a flag to specify a custom config file.
• I am not seeing a environment variable besides RAILWAY_TOKEN, which is different though. It's for project-specific authentication instead of the full account.

I am currently talking to Railway staff on Discord to get more info.

[arunsathiya]

Quick update from the Discord conversation:

• Railway devs are busy building a v2 of their CLI, in Rust.
• Until that version is out (expected late this week), we wouldn't know the exact environment variables or custom config path/flag.

Time to wait.

[arunsathiya]

Another progress note: Their CLI is now written in rust, and seems to have merged to the main repo as of two days ago. I am yet to take their new CLI for a spin. Hopefully there's a flag to path custom config path, and/or support for environment variables.

[aryanprince]

@arunsathiya Looks like the latest version of Railway's CLI only supports a per-project token for their CLI's auth according to the official CLI auth docs. They do have other methods of auth but the one that uses a token is only per-project level.

From what I'm seeing on their docs, I'm not sure if they support having an 'account-level' token (to manage all Railway projects for instance).

Edit: Apparently there exists an un-documented RAILWAY_API_TOKEN variable for account-level access for the Railway CLI. This works great, and I opened a PR (#481) to create a new plugin for the Railway CLI.

[aryanprince]

Update: Apparently there exists an un-documented RAILWAY_API_TOKEN variable for account-level access for the Railway CLI as mentioned here. This works great, and I opened a PR (#481) to create a new 1Password CLI Shell Plugin for the Railway CLI.