sputnik

This repo demonstrates how to setup a Rust micro-service using Rocket, async-graphql, and sqlx. For some background on this, go here.

Note: This repo assumes you have some familiarity with Rust, graphQL, and SQL.

Installation Steps

Cloning related repo

Besides cloning this repo, you will also need to clone async-graphql. The reason you need to do that is because the Rocket support for async-graphql is currently unpublished. Make the necessary changes to Cargo.toml to update the path information to async-graphql and async-graphql-rocket.

Database Setup

1. This project assumes that you have postgres installed locally. At this point, you will need to create a starwars database.

   psql -h localhost -U postgres -w -c "create database starwars;"

2. Create a .env file in the project root directory and add the following line:

   DATABASE_URL="postgres://postgres:<YOUR_PWD>@localhost:5432/starwars"

   This environment variable is used as a configuration input to the database connection pool to indicate where to find the database

Seeding your database with migrations

Migration tables have been created to seed the `starwars` schema in your database.

1. To use the migration scripts, install the golang-migrate CLI.

   Go here and follow instructions to install the CLI.

2. After installation, set this up for golang-migrate:

   export POSTGRESQL_URL='postgres://postgres:<YOUR_PWD>@localhost:5432/starwars?sslmode=disable'

3. When you are ready to run the migration, run this from the project's root directory:

   migrate -source file://./src/db/migrations -database postgres://postgres:<YOUR_PWD>@localhost:5432/starwars?sslmode=disable up

   Note: If you run into migration quirks, read the documentation at golang-migrate

Running the service

The current configuration in Rocket.toml has been setup to run the micro-service on port 7600. After you have cargo build and cargo run, you can browse the graphQL server playground here:

http://localhost:7600/

Extending the database

This section can be skipped if you are not interested in extending the database.

1. If you want to extend the tables, you can create new migration scripts,

migrate create -ext sql -dir src/db/migrations -seq <MIGRATION_FILE_NAME>

2. If you want to update the scripts only, you will have to do a down, followed by an up

   migrate -source file://./src/db/migrations -database postgres://postgres:<YOUR_PWD>@localhost:5432/starwars?sslmode=disable down

   migrate -source file://./src/db/migrations -database postgres://postgres:<YOUR_PWD>@localhost:5432/starwars?sslmode=disable up

   Note: If you encounter errors in your scripts, you will need to truncate the scheme_migrations table, and drop the starwars schema.