Deployment: Create initial deployment onto Railway.app

[jragh]

Create initial deployment onto Railway.app free tier for now (for development purposes)

• Sync railway app to github for easy builds based off of main or another development branch
• set up additional security for database
• potentially migrate SQLite to PostgreSQL or MySQL

Deployment Instructions Deployment Sample Github Repo

Checklist Items:

• [x] Setup Postgres local database for local development testing
• [x] Setup environment variables in conda environment
• [x] Test call to environment variables in testing script
• [ ] Fix SQL Queries making calls to PostgreSQL environment variable database as opposed to sqlite development database
• [ ] Test Final Local Migration
• [ ] pgloader data from PostgreSQL local environment to Postgresql railway environment
• [ ] Setup environment variables on Railway environment
• [ ] Test Deployment and complete changes

[jragh]

Completed setting up local postgresql database for development, set up conda environment variable, and tested call to local postgresql database from test python file. Currently converting all SQL queries to use Postgres syntax as opposed to sqlite syntax.