/rust-blog-engine

A demo blog post engine in Rust, using Rocket and MongoDB

Primary LanguageRust

A demo blog post engine written in Rust, using Rocket and MongoDB

Quick Start

  • Setup a new MongoDB cluster https://cloud.mongodb.com/ create a new database and obtain the rust connection string (under Database/Connect) example (mongodb+srv://<user>:<password>@XXXX.mongodb.net/myFirstDatabase?retryWrites=true&w=majority)

  • Create a database rust_blog_engine

  • Add a collection authorization containing authorized users id (Google user id)

{
    "_id": "116710526826489061000",
    "email": "nabil.hachicha@gmail.com",
    "name": "Nabil Hachicha"
}

  • Add a collection blogs which will persist our blog posts entries.

  • Setup a Google OAuth2 API and add the client_id and client_secret inside the Rocket.toml file.

  • Start the engine using cargo run and providing the MongoDB connection string

MDB_URL="mongodb+srv://<user>:<password>@XXXX.mongodb.net/myFirstDatabase?retryWrites=true&w=majority" cargo run

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