heroku-buildpack-rust

Features:

• Cached multirust, Rust toolchain.
• Caching of previous build artifacts to (potentially dramatically) speed up similar builds.
• Configurable version selection inside of the Cargo.toml.

Configuration

You can use any override you would pass multirust for this buildpack.

We currently (ab)use the cargo's "target" feature to set the version desired. Unfortunately because of this there are sometimes (harmless) cargo warnings about an unused value in the toml file.

Example:

[package]
name = "foo"
version = "0.1.0"
authors = ["Andrew Hobden <andrew@hoverbear.org>"]

[dependencies]
iron = "*"

[target.heroku]
version = "nightly"

Instructions

APP="rust-buildpack-test" && \
cargo new --bin $APP      && \
cd $APP                   && \
git init                  && \
heroku create $APP --buildpack https://github.com/Hoverbear/heroku-buildpack-rust && \
echo "web: target/release/$APP" > Procfile

Example App

After following the instructions above, in Cargo.toml add:

[dependencies]
iron = "*"

In src/main.rs let's use a simple iron demo:

extern crate iron;

use iron::prelude::*;
use iron::status;
use std::env;

fn main() {
    fn hello_world(_: &mut Request) -> IronResult<Response> {
        Ok(Response::with((status::Ok, "Hello World!")))
    }

    let url = format!("0.0.0.0:{}", env::var("PORT").unwrap());

    println!("Binding on {:?}", url);
    Iron::new(hello_world).http(&url[..]).unwrap();
    println!("Bound on {:?}", url);
}

Now the following steps:

git add src/main.rs Cargo.toml Procfile && \
git commit -m "Init"                    && \
git push heroku master

Heroku should then build your application. Finally, you may need to start your application's web dyno with:

heroku ps:scale web=1

Now you can visit https://$APP.herokuapp.com/ and see your application!

Testing

If you have Docker, you can test this buildpack by doing the following:

make

The Makefile defines how to pull down the testrunner and build the appropriate docker container, then test the buildpack.