Ferrum

Ferrum is the backend for Geplauder, built with actix-web and sqlx.

For more information on Geplauder, click here.

Architecture

Ferrum consists of two separate services:

• REST Api: Handles initial data fetching for frontend clients and processes actions from the client.
• WebSocket Server: Keep connected clients from the frontend up-to-date by providing them with appropriate updates.

Usage

This project supplies a docker-compose.yml file for easy development.

Start Postgres and RabbitMQ:

docker compose up -d

The preferred way to configure your database is sqlx-cli:

cargo install sqlx-cli # Install sqlx-cli
cd ferrum-db
sqlx database create   # Create the database specified in '.env'
sqlx migrate run       # Run migrations

As this project contains two services, we need to start them both for proper usage.

Start the REST api:

cargo run

Start the websocket server:

cd ferrum-websocket
cargo run

As this project uses bunyan with a JSON formatter for logging (tracing), it's recommended to run it in combination with bunyan:

npm install -g bunyan # Globally install bunyan
cargo run | bunyan    # Start the project and pipe the logs into bunyan

Contributing

Ferrum uses rustfmt for formatting and clippy for linting. Make sure to run them before committing:

cargo fmt
cargo clippy

When using sqlx compile-time checked queries, make sure to update the metadata before committing:

cd ferrum-db
cargo sqlx prepare # Update sqlx metadata

Disclaimer

This project is under heavy development and not suitable for production. It may contain severe security vulnerabilities.

License

GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3) unless otherwise stated.