railway dev

Run your Railway services locally using Docker Compose, with automatic environment variable injection and HTTPS support.

Note: This is an experimental feature. The API may change without notice.

Usage

railway dev [COMMAND] [OPTIONS]

Subcommand	Aliases	Description
`up`	`start`	Start services (default)
`down`	`stop`	Stop services
`clean`	`reset`	Stop services and remove volumes/data
`configure`	`config`	Configure local code services

railway dev

Starts image-based services (databases, etc.) via Docker Compose and prompts you to configure code-based services.

railway dev --verbose

railway dev down

railway dev clean

railway dev configure

Interactively configure how your code services run locally (command, directory, port).

Flag	Description
`-e, --environment <ENV>`	Environment to use
`-o, --output <PATH>`	Output path for docker-compose.yml
`--dry-run`	Generate docker-compose.yml without starting
`--no-https`	Disable HTTPS and pretty URLs
`-v, --verbose`	Show verbose domain replacement info
`--no-tui`	Disable TUI, stream logs to stdout

Flag	Description
`--service <SERVICE>`	Specific service to configure (by name)
`--remove [SERVICE]`	Remove configuration for a service (optionally specify service name)

Configure a specific service:

railway dev configure --service backend

Remove configuration for all services:

railway dev configure --remove

Remove configuration for a specific service:

railway dev configure --remove backend