It’s easy to host your Embedchain-powered apps and APIs on railway.

Follow the instructions given below to deploy your first application quickly:

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Step-1: Create RAG app

Install embedchain
pip install embedchain

Create a full stack app using Embedchain CLI

To use your hosted embedchain RAG app, you can easily set up a FastAPI server that can be used anywhere. To easily set up a FastAPI server, check out Get started with Full stack page.

Hosting this server on railway is super easy!

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Step-2: Set up your project

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With Docker

You can create a Dockerfile in the root of the project, with all the instructions. However, this method is sometimes slower in deployment.

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Without Docker

By default, Railway uses Python 3.7. Embedchain requires the python version to be >3.9 in order to install.

To fix this, create a .python-version file in the root directory of your project and specify the correct version

.python-version
3.10

You also need to create a requirements.txt file to specify the requirements.

requirements.txt
python-dotenv
embedchain
fastapi==0.108.0
uvicorn==0.25.0
embedchain
beautifulsoup4
sentence-transformers

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Step-3: Deploy to Railway 🚀

  1. Go to https://railway.app and create an account.
  2. Create a project by clicking on the “Start a new project” button

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With Github

Select Empty Project or Deploy from Github Repo.

You should be all set!

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Without Github

You can also use the railway CLI to deploy your apps from the terminal, if you don’t want to connect a git repository.

To do this, just run this command in your terminal

Install and set up railway CLI
npm i -g @railway/cli
railway login
railway link [projectID]

Finally, run railway up to deploy your app.

Deploy
railway up

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Seeking help?

If you run into issues with deployment, please feel free to reach out to us via any of the following methods:

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