Rust

Rust is an enjoyable language, and I have been experimenting with it for a some time. I started with creating a few web servers using different crates including rocket and actix. I needed to use an email api to send messages from the backend to either myself or the user. I have used Sparkpost as an email service for such purpose in some of my nodejs apps. Having not found any rust API lib for it I decided to create one for myself. It is available on https://crates.io/crates/sparkpost . ...

I have been struggling to get focused and learn more about the rust language. I would like to be ready when async .await lands on stable rust a few weeks time. So I have decided to write a micro blog series about my experience with learning rust for a 100 days. It won’t come without its own challenges, biggest being lack of time due to life commitments, and lack of focus and perseverance. It is almost at the end of sailing summer season (I sail twice a week) and it would be nice to have something new and challenging to do while I eagerly wait for next year sailing to start. ...

Please Read the Updated version using latest actix-web here , gitlab repo master branch now points to latest version Welcome back to part 3 of the tutorial Checkout Part One and Part Two if you haven’t already. Complete code for this project is on Gitlab master branch. Updating our cargo.toml? Rust ecosystem is moving fast, in a matter of few week we have many of our crates updated upstream including my sparkpost crate(more on that later). Without any delay let’s just update the follwing crates in our cargo.toml file. ...

Please Read the Updated version using latest actix-web here , gitlab repo master branch now points to latest version Welcome back to part 2 of the tutorial In part one we have successfully setup bulk base of our Auth microservice. Congratulations if you have your app running and no errors so far. Checkout Part One if you haven’t already. Complete code for this tutorial is on Gitlab part two branch. Verify User Email or not? Picking up from part one, we now have as server that takes an email address from a request and spits out a JSON response with an invitation object. In part one I said that we will send an email to the user, after some thought and feedback, we will be skipping this part now (look out for part 3). The service that I use is sparkpost and you as the reader of this tutorial may not have an account with them(which is free for small usage). ...

Please Read the Updated version using latest actix-web here , gitlab repo master branch now points to latest version What? We are going to create a web-server in rust that only deals with user registration and authentication. I will be explaining the steps in each file as we go. The complete project code is here repo . Please take all this with a pinch of salt as I’m a still a noob to rust 😉. ...

Problem set translation form C to rust. I’m using the code I had from 2014 and implementing rust equivalent as a learning exercises. the firs C program is very simple classic ‘Hello World’ followed by rust ‘hello world’. The example below that is about parsing command line user input and printing a pyramid based on that input. Although I can think of many ways to improve the code and user interaction but I chose to just copy exactly the same functionality for new rust code. ...