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Hoista finds the services and databases in the projects of a Railway workspace. It deploys services, redeploys or rolls back through Railway’s own deployments, adds databases and buckets, and can run your remote.

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Connect

In Desktop, open Accounts, choose Railway, and paste a token:
  1. Open Tokens: Account Settings → Tokens → Create token. Name it Hoista and pick your workspace. No workspace gives the token every workspace.
  2. Copy the token and paste it into Hoista.
  3. If Hoista asks for the workspace ID, press ⌘K in Railway and choose Copy active workspace ID.
Railway’s New Token page

Railway’s New Token page, captured November 2026. Personal details are blurred. If yours looks different, the names in the steps still match.

From the CLI:
It asks for the token in a hidden prompt and finds the workspace from it. In scripts, use hoist accounts add railway --name NAME --token-stdin, and add --account <workspace-id> if the token reaches more than one workspace.

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What you can do

  • Deploy a service from a folder, a GitHub repository or a container image.
  • Redeploy or roll back a service through Railway’s deployments.
  • Add a database or a bucket to a Railway project.
  • Read and change variables on the Variables tab.
  • See logs for the service’s latest deployment, metrics, and daily usage with hoist usage.
  • Use the Railway tab for Railway’s own settings and operations.
  • See what Railway has billed the workspace so far this period on Billing.
  • Run your remote on Railway with hoist remote create railway --account <account> --repo OWNER/NAME. Until Hoista publishes a server image, --repo is needed; see Set one up.
  • Delete a service or database at Railway after you confirm it by name.

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Bring in existing resources

Hoista looks for services when you connect. In Desktop, add them as described in Bring in an existing project. From the CLI:
Projects start in watching mode. Run hoist projects manage my-app when you want Hoista to make changes. To look again, run hoist accounts refresh <account> with the name or ID from hoist accounts.

Providers

What Hoista supports on each provider.

Connect hosting accounts

Connect, check and rotate accounts.

Bring in a project

Add what an account already runs.