docs/deployment/railway.mdx

---
title: 'Railway.app'
description: 'Deploy your RAG application to railway.app'
---

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

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

## Step-1: Create RAG app

```bash Install embedchain
pip install embedchain
```

<Tip>
**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](https://docs.embedchain.ai/get-started/full-stack) page.

Hosting this server on railway is super easy!

</Tip>

## Step-2: Set up your project

### 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.

### 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

```bash .python-version
3.10
```

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

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

## 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

### With Github

Select `Empty Project` or `Deploy from Github Repo`. 

You should be all set!

### 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

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

Finally, run `railway up` to deploy your app.
```bash Deploy
railway up
```

## Seeking help?

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

<Snippet file="get-help.mdx" />