Installation

Prerequisites

The easiest way to get started is with the cargo-rusta CLI, which scaffolds a complete project with all dependencies and configuration:

cargo install cargo-rusta
cargo rusta new my-api
cd my-api
cargo run

See the CLI guide for full documentation, including template options.

If you have an existing Rust project, add the crates you need to Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
rusta = "0.1.0"

The rusta-apm and rusta-logger crates include optional axum-middleware feature (enabled by default):

[dependencies]
rusta-apm = "0.1.0"
# Without middleware (if you want custom middleware)
rusta-apm = { version = "0.1.0", default-features = false }

Create a minimal main.rs:

use rusta::prelude::*;

fn main() {
    println!("Rusta installed successfully!");
}

Build to verify:

cargo build