5050cloud

The railway alias

The 5050 binary also answers to railway, so scripts and habits built on Railway's CLI keep working.

How it works

5050 alias install adds a railway symlink next to the 5050 binary. It leaves a real railway binary alone if one is already on your PATH. When the binary runs as railway, it accepts Railway's verbs and flags, for example:

railway login
railway link
railway up --service api
railway variables --set "FOO=bar"
railway add -d postgres
railway logs
railway run -- npm run migrate

The first time, it prints one line: Using 5050cloud at <url>; run 5050 alias remove to undo.

A verb 5050cloud does not have answers with railway <verb> is not available in 5050cloud. See 5050cloud.com/docs/coming-from-railway and exits non-zero.

Manage the alias

5050 alias install
5050 alias remove

Tokens

As railway, the CLI also reads RAILWAY_TOKEN and RAILWAY_API_TOKEN. Use a 5050cloud API token as the value, not a Railway token.

Next steps

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