Updated Docker & .dockerignore for deployment in Railway

Author: XavierRolex

.dockerignore

@@ -1,10 +1,50 @@
-__pycache__
+# Ignore Python cache files
+__pycache__/
 *.pyc
 *.pyo
 *.pyd
+
+# Ignore virtual environments
 env/
-venv/
+
+# Ignore logs and raw data
 logs/
 data/
+
+# Ignore macOS system files
 .DS_Store
+
+# Ignore notebooks (dev use only)
+notebooks/
 *.ipynb
+
+# Ignore all models except the best one
+models/*
+!models/ensemble_voting_model.pkl
+!models/tfidf_vectorizer.pkl
+
+
+# Ignore test files
+tests/
+
+# Ignore coverage and other test outputs
+.coverage
+pytest_cache/
+htmlcov/
+*.log
+
+# Ignore Jupyter-related config
+.ipynb_checkpoints/
+
+# Ignore deployment configs not needed in container
+render.yaml
+README.md
+folder_structure.txt
+LICENSE
+
+# General
+.git
+.github
+.vscode/
+.idea/
+

Dockerfile

@@ -1,37 +1,32 @@
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# Dockerfile for Fake-News-Detector – FastAPI + ML model
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
 # 1. Base image
 FROM python:3.11-slim
 
 # 2. Working directory
 WORKDIR /app
 
-# 3. System packages required for building wheels (e.g. wordcloud)
+# 3. Install system dependencies
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-        build-essential \
-        libpng-dev \
-        libjpeg-dev \
-        libfreetype6-dev \
-        pkg-config \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-# 4. Copy requirements first (leverages Docker layer cache)
+    build-essential \
+    libjpeg-dev \
+    libpng-dev \
+    libfreetype6-dev \
+    pkg-config \
+ && apt-get clean \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# 4. Install Python dependencies
 COPY requirements.txt .
-
-# 5. Install Python deps
 RUN pip install --upgrade pip \
- && pip install --default-timeout=100 --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+ && pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
-# 6. Copy the rest of the project
+# 5. Copy project files
 COPY . .
 
-# 7. Environment
+# 6. Set environment variables
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 
-# 8. Expose FastAPI port
+# 7. Expose port
 EXPOSE 8000
 
-# 9. Launch the app
+# 8. Run app
 CMD ["uvicorn", "app.main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8000"]