A basic web framework for Rust. Subject to be redesigned when issues arise (and when Rust updates)
Make a small, extensible micro framework to allow users the freedom to choose whatever external libraries they want
I try to keep it up to date with master, but if it ever falls behind, it should be too hard to update. The codebase is pretty small
git clone --recursive https://github.com/jroweboy/oxidize
cd oxidize && ./build-deps.sh
oxidize is now using rust-empty to provide the makefile, so you will need to follow those guidelines. The only dependency for oxidize is rust-http, so before you build oxidize, you will need to first build rust-http. Then you will need to symlink the libraries into the target directory. This target directory is a little weird right now since it is trying to match up to what cargo expects. Hopefully this will become much less painful someday when cargo gets completed. Till then I made a short command list filled with the commands to run as a bash script (aka the build deps script). If this fails though, you will want to do those steps that I just mentioned and maybe try each command in build_deps one at a time.
Other projects you may want as dependancies for your project
- rust-postgres
- rust-mustache
- jinja2-c (my attempt at making c/rust bindings for jinja2)
- rust-http (I should really expose this whole thing through oxidize since it's darn useful)
Probably the best way to contribute is to offer feedback about what you like and dislike about the framework in general. We wanna make a framework that people will enjoy coding in with all the other awesome guarentees that Rust brings.
A very cool way to contribute would be to try to make something in oxidize and then tell me what you liked and what you disliked. I read lots and lots of blog posts about what different people like in every sort of web framework, and I usually take the things that I like from there. But as of yet, no one has made anything substantial in oxidize yet so I don't know where to improve. Over the summer, I will make something big in oxidize so expect big things from that as well.
If you've ever commited code to this repository, feel free to add your name here!
James Rowe - (jroweboy)
Robert Hickman - (robhobbes)