Cannot mount a volume using docker-compose

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I have a project with the following structure:

- my-project/
  - docker-compose.yml
  - web
    - Dockerfile
    - src/

I am trying to setup docker-compose.yml, so that the web service will start up in a docker container, and web/ directory will be mounted under /app in the docker container. This will enable me to edit the source files on the host system, and they will be recompiled in the docker container (let’s say this is a Rails app).

Currently my docker-compose.yml looks like this:

version: "2"
services:
    web:
        build: web
        image: web
        volumes:
            - ./web:/app

This docker-compose.yml does use web/Dockerfile to build the web image, and it starts it up, but /app directory in the running container is always empty. I cannot figure out why that’s the case. I can get what I want by using docker directly (by running the following in the web/ directory: docker run -v $(pwd)/web:/app -it --rm web /bin/bash), but this is not going to work with multiple web-like services (hence why I’m trying to use docker-compose).

Can anyone see what is wrong here?

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